1894

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 55

Amending Regulations under the Prisons Act, 1908, and Amending
Act, and Crimes Amendment Acts, 1910 and 1920.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of August,
1932.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by the Prisons Act, 1908 (as amended by section
sixteen of the Statute Law Amendment Act, 1917), by the Prisons
Amendment Act, 1912, by the Prisons Amendment Act, 1919, and
by the Crimes Amendment Act, 1910 (as amended by the Crimes
Amendment Act, 1920), and of all other statutory and other powers
enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
make the regulations hereinafter set out.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Prisons Regulations, 1932.

2. These regulations shall be read together with and deemed to
   form part of the Prisons Regulations, 1925, and these regulations
   and the Prisons Regulations, 1925, may together be cited as the Prisons
   Regulations, 1925 and 1932.

3. These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of August,

5. Regulations No. 384 to No. 411 (both inclusive) of the Prisons
   Regulations, 1925, comprising Part XII and Part XIII respectively
   of those regulations, and the amending Regulations No. 389 and
   No. 389A, published in Gazette No. 31, of 2nd May, 1929, are hereby
   revoked.

6. Any marks and earnings heretofore allotted or credited to
   prisoners under the regulations hereby revoked shall remain so allotted
   or credited as if they had in the first place been allotted or credited
   under the regulations hereinafter set out.

7. The following regulations are enacted and shall be read as com-
   prising Part XII and Part XIII respectively of the Prisons Regulations,

PART XII.

MARKS SYSTEM.—PAYMENT TO PRISONERS FOR GOOD CONDUCT AND
INDUSTRY.

384. Persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment with or without
     hard labour, including those sentenced to or ordered to undergo terms
     of reformative 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. Subject to the exceptions hereinafter contained, there shall
     be allotted to every prisoner while so employed industry marks as
     hereinafter provided.

386. No marks shall be allotted to any prisoner in respect of his
     labour during the first three months of his sentence nor (if he is required
     to commence his sentence in the probationary grade) until he has
     passed out of the probationary grade.

387. After a satisfactory record of good conduct and industry for
     the first three months of his sentence, and after having passed out
     of the probationary grade, a prisoner who is placed at labour by the
     Controlling Officer shall be allotted up to eight marks per day, such
     allotment to be based on the conduct and diligence with which the
     prisoner applies himself to the tasks assigned to him, and to be made
     daily by the officer in charge of the prisoner.

388. No prisoner who having escaped from custody is recaptured
     and returned to prison, or who having been released on probation is
     returned to prison whilst on probation, either for a breach of the
     conditions of his probationary license or for a further offence, shall
     be allotted any marks during the next four months after his return
     to prison unless the Controller-General otherwise directs.