Parliament of the United Kingdom

“ Any person who, having been sentenced to imprisonment, corrective training, preventive detention or Borstal training or ordered to be detained in a detention centre, or having been committed to a prison or remand centre, is unlawfully at large, may be arrested by a constable without warrant and taken to the place in which he is required in accordance with law to be detained. ”

“ When a prisoner is discharged from prison the Prison Commissioners may, on the recommendation of the visiting committee or board of visitors or otherwise, order a sum of money not exceeding two pounds to be paid by the governor to the prisoner or to the treasurer of a society certified under the last preceding section, on the governor receiving from the society an undertaking in writing, signed by the secretary, to apply the money for the benefit of the prisoner. ”

“ A justice of the peace for any county or borough may at any time visit any prison in that county or borough and any prison in which a prisoner is confined in respect of an offence committed in that county or borough, and may examine the condition of the prison and of the prisoners and enter in the visitors’ book, to be kept by the governor of the prison, any observations on the condition of the prison or any abuses. ”

“ Where any living accommodation is provided for a prison officer or his family by virtue of his office, then, if he ceases to be a prison officer or is suspended from office or dies, he, or, as the case may be, his family, shall quit the accommodation when required to do so by notice of the Prison Commissioners. ”

“ No prisoner shall be visited against his will by such a minister as is mentioned in the last preceding subsection; but every prisoner not belonging to the Church of England shall be allowed, in accordance with the arrangements in force in the prison in which he is confined, to attend chapel or to be visited by the chaplain. ”

“ A certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and certifying that he has received a notice given pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section twenty-nine of this Act to the effect that a person has failed to comply with any requirement under that subsection shall, in any such proceedings as aforesaid, be evidence of the notice having been duly given and of the contents of the notice. ”

“ The rules shall not authorise the infliction of corporal punishment except by order of the visiting committee or board of visitors, as the case may be, made at a meeting at which not more than five nor less than three members, at least two being justices of the peace, are present ”