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58 of 1978
The Correctional Services (previously Prisons) Amendment Act 58 of 1978 intends:
- to amend the provisions of the Correctional Services (previously Prisons) Act, 1959, relating to definitions;
- the appointment of members, other than commissioned officers, of the Prisons Service; and
- the date applicable to the retirement of members of the Prisons Service on pension;
- to authorize the Commissioner of Prisons to determine security measures at prisons, to grant privileges and indulgences to prisoners and to withdraw such privileges and indulgences;
- to repeal the powers of commissioned officers of the Prisons Service to inspect police cells and lock-ups;
- to repeal the powers and duties relating to civil debtors;
- to authorize the Minister of Prisons to enter into agreements with governments of territories in Africa in terms of which persons who in the Republic have been sentenced or referred to prisons for detention therein, may be detained in prisons in such territories;
- to reduce the number of strokes which may be inflicted by way of corporal punishment; and
- to reduce the minimum period of detention of an habitual criminal;
- to provide for the payment of monetary rewards to persons giving certain information or performing certain ads in the interest of the Department of Prisons; and
- for the imposition of further penalties on members of the Prisons Service contravening certain provisions of the said Prisons Act and to increase certain fines which may be imposed on such members contravening such provisions;
- to reduce the maximum age at which corporal punishment may be inflicted on a prisoner;
- relating to the review of certain sentences;
- to provide for the taking into consideration by prison boards exercising their powers of comments made in respect of sentences by the persons imposing such sentences;
- to authorize the Minister of Prisons to release prisoners, sentenced to more than two years' imprisonment, on probation;
- to increase the period of special remission which may he granted in respect of imprisonment;
- to authorize the Commissioner of Prisons to exempt completely segregated prisoners from certain labour; and
- to authorize magistrates to order the presence of any prisoner before a court over which they are presiding;
- to provide for the establishment and conduct of canteens at prisons;
- to exempt the State from liability for loss or damages connected with the use of certain property or the rendering of certain services; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
17 May 1978
