PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 43
PRISONS ACT 1981 - SECT 43
43 . Separate confinement
(1) For the purpose of
maintaining good government, good order or security in a prison, the chief
executive officer may order, in writing, the separate confinement in prison of
a prisoner for such period not exceeding 30 days as is specified in the order.
(2) The chief
executive officer shall inform the Minister forthwith of every order made by
him under subsection (1).
(3) Every cell used
for the separate confinement of a prisoner under this section shall be of such
a size and so ventilated and lighted that a prisoner may be confined in that
cell without injury to health and every prisoner in separate confinement shall
have the means of taking air and exercise for not less than one hour each day
at such times and for such other periods as the chief executive officer may
direct.
[Section 43 amended: No. 47 of 1987 s. 11; No. 113
of 1987 s. 32.]