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The Prisons Act, 1894

( ACT NO. IX OF 1894 )

Chapter IV

ADMISSION, REMOVAL AND DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS

Subordinate Officers

Removal and discharge of prisoners
26. (1) All prisoners, previously to being removed to any other prison, shall be examined by the Medical Officer.
 
 
(2) No prisoner shall be removed from one prison to another unless the Medical Officer certifies that the prisoner is free from any illness rendering him unfit for removal.
 
 
(3) No prisoner shall be discharged against his will from prison, if labouring under any acute or dangerous distemper, nor until, in the opinion of the Medical Officer, such discharge is safe.

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