Prisons (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

L.N. 67 of 2020

PRISONS ACT

(CAP. 260)

Prisons (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 6 of the

Prisons Act, the Minister for Home Affairs and National Security has

made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Prisons (Amendment)

Regulations, 2020, and these regulations shall be read and construed

as one with the Prisons Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

In regulation 70 of the principal regulations, immediately

after paragraph (b) of sub-regulation 3, there shall be added the

following new provisos

"Provided that a prisoner who refuses and/or fails to

provide the required sample as provided under this regulation,

shall without prejudice to disciplinary proceedings, be deemed

to be in breach of this regulation and can forfeit days of

remission in accordance with the provisions of Part V of the

Restorative Justice Act

Provided further that it shall be a defence for such

prisoner to prove that his failure to provide a sample was due to

a physical or mental incapacity to provide it or because its

provision would entail a substantial risk to his health.".

In regulation 107 of the principal regulations, immediately

after the words "to it by a prisoner" there shall be added the words

"including on matters relating to the conditions of their detention".

In regulation 108 the principal regulations, immediately

after sub-regulation (3) thereof there shall be added the following

new sub-regulation (4)

"(4) It shall also be lawful for the Board to decide on

complaints and requests made by the prisoners relating to the

conditions of their detention within a period of two months of the

date of receipt of the request or complaint and after consulting the

Director in relation to the said requests and complaints.".

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