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Prisons Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. The Comptroller-General and his staff.

2. Establishment and classification of prisons.

3. Legal custody of prisoners.

4. Hard labour

5. Removal of prisoners.

6. Production of prisoners before courts, etc.

7. Insanity of prisoners.

8. Removal of sick prisoners to hospital.

9. Discharge of prisoners.

10. Use of weapons. 11. Prison visitors.

11. Prison medical officers, etc.

12. Prison Officers Reward Fund.

13. Offences.

14. Regulations.

15. Standing orders.

16. Delegation of functions.

17. Savings and transitional provisions.

18. Interpretation.

19. Short title.

SCHEDULE

Savings and transitional provisions

An Act to make comprehensive provisions for the administration of prisons in Nigeria and other matters ancillary thereto.

[10th April, 1972] [Commencement.]

1. The Comptroller-General and his staff

There shall be in the civil service of the Federation a Comptroller-General, who shall have the general charge and superintendence of the prisons system in Nigeria to be known as the "Nigerian Prisons Service", and such officers subordinate to the Comptroller-General as may be necessary for the proper operation of the service.

2. Establishment and classification of prisons

(1) The Minister may, by order in the Federal Gazette, declare any building or place in Nigeria to be a prison and by the same or a subsequent order specify the area for which the prison is established.
(2) Every prison shall include-

(a) the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure, and

(b) any lock-up house for the temporary detention or custody of prisoners newly apprehended or under remand which is declared by the Minister by order in the Federal Gazette to be part of the prison.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, every prison shall be a prison for the imprisonment of prisoners of every description.
(4) The Minister may, for effecting the separation of classes of prisoners or for the training of any class of prisoner or for any other purpose, by order in the Federal Gazette appropriate any prison or part of a prison to particular classes of prisoners; and any prisoner of the class to which any prison or part of a prison has been appropriated rmay law- fully be conveyed thereto and imprisoned therein, whether or not the warrant or order for his imprisonment has been issued by a court having jurisdiction in the place where the prison is situated.

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