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104 of 1983
The Correctional Services (previously Prisons) Amendment Act 104 of 1983 intends:
- to amend the Correctional Services (previously Prisons) Act, 1959, so as
- to extend the definition of "prisoner" to include certain mentally ill persons;
- to provide for th·e establishment of a Prisons Service Reserve Force;
- to extend the composition of the Prisons Service by the inclusion of the Prisons Service Reserve Force;
- to delete a reference to the Senate and to replace the words "Consolidated Revenue Fund" with the words "State Revenue Fund";
- to extend the circumstances in which members of the Prisons Service may be discharged without an enquiry;
- to define more fully the requirements for the reception of unconvicted persons at prisons;
- to prohibit the unauthorized presence of persons at a prison;
- to increase the penalties for certain offences;
- to do away with the prohibition in connection with tobacco in a prison;
- to make other provision relating to the determination of the prices at which goods manufactured by the Prisons Service may be sold;
- to make further and other provision relating to the detention of certain unconvicted persons, and to the holding of inquests in respect of the deaths of prisoners who presumably died from other than natural causes;
- to extend the power of the State President to make regulations; and
- to delete the provision that the said Act may be applied to the territory of South West Africa; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
26 August 1983
