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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 65

Misdemeanants of the Second Division.

367. Every person convicted of an offence and not sentenced to hard labour shall be treated as a misdemeanant of the Second Division unless the Court or Judge before whom such person has been tried otherwise orders. Second-class misdemeanants shall be required to work at any of the occupations laid down for misdemeanants of the First Division.

368. They shall receive the scale of rations laid down for prisoners employed at hard labour.

369. They shall be kept separate from criminal prisoners, and shall be allowed visits fortnightly at a convenient hour. They shall be allowed to correspond once in each fortnight with their relatives and friends.

Prisoners sentenced to Hard Labour.

370. Every prisoner sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour shall be kept at hard labour during the whole term of his sentence, unless the Medical Officer certifies that he is unable to perform the work allotted to him.

371. All prisoners sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour shall be required to serve the first three months of their sentences in a grade to be known as the probationary grade. Any prisoner whose conduct or work during the first three months of his sentence is unsatisfactory shall not be permitted to pass out of the probationary grade until he has served three months with exemplary conduct and industry.

372. All prisoners sentenced to hard labour shall be required to work at one of the following occupations, viz.: Agricultural work, blacksmithing, brickmaking, carpentry; manufacture of concrete blocks, tiles, and other concrete products; concrete-mixing, draining and ditching, excavating, general building-work, hammer and drill work, plastering, ploughing, roadmaking, stone-breaking, stone-dressing, tinsmithing, wall-building, or general labouring work.

Prisoners sentenced to Reformatory Detention.

373. All prisoners serving terms of reformatory detention shall be subject to the regulations laid down for hard-labour prisoners in respect of the period to be served in the probationary grade.

374. They shall be required to work at any one of the occupations prescribed for hard-labour prisoners.

375. Reformatory-detention prisoners shall, so far as possible, be kept apart from other sentenced prisoners both at work and in the exercise-yards.

376. They shall receive the scale of rations laid down for hard-labour prisoners.

Habitual Criminals and Offenders.

377. Habitual criminals and habitual offenders shall be kept entirely separate from other prisoners in the exercise-yards and within the prison. They shall, so far as possible, be kept apart from other prisoners whilst at work.

378. They shall be subject to the regulations laid down for hard-labour prisoners both in respect of the period to be served in the probationary grade and in their occupations.

379. They shall receive the scale of rations laid down for hard-labour prisoners.

Sexual Perverts.

380. Prisoners who have been sentenced for offences under sections 153 and 154 of the Crimes Act, 1908, shall, as far as possible, be segregated in one institution.

381. The Controller-General may cause any prisoner to be classified as a sexual pervert. Sexual perverts shall be kept under close supervision whilst in the exercise-yards and at labour.

Prisoners sentenced to Hard Labour for Periods not exceeding Three Months.

382. Prisoners serving sentences of hard labour for periods not exceeding three months may on discharge be granted a gratuity not exceeding 5s., unless sentence expires on a Saturday, when the gratuity may be increased to an amount not exceeding 7s. 6d.

Prisoners under Sentence of Death.

383. Prisoners under sentence of death shall be in charge of the Controlling Officer till the day appointed for the execution, when he shall hand them over to the Sheriff on demand; they shall be frequently and carefully searched, and all dangerous articles taken from them; they shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and placed day and night in charge of officers; they shall be allowed such diet and exercise as the Medical Officer may recommend; and they shall be visited only by a minister of religion, the Visiting Justices, Official Visitors, Inspectors, the Sheriff, immediate relatives, or an officer of the prison, or such other persons as may be authorized by the Controller-General. The Controlling Officer may, if he thinks it necessary for their safe custody, place them under mechanical restraint.

PART XII.—PAYMENT TO PRISONERS FOR INDUSTRY COMBINED WITH GOOD CONDUCT.

384. Persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment, including those sentenced to reformatory detention or declared habitual criminals or habitual offenders, shall be employed at such labour as may be assigned to them by the Controlling Officer.

385. While so employed they shall be paid a scale rate, assessed under the marks system, of 1d. per mark for each mark earned under the terms and conditions prescribed in Regulations 390 to 396