✨ Dunedin Gaol regulations
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1860. [No. 106.
DUNEDIN GAOL REGULATIONS.
(From the General Government Gazette.)
Attorney General\'s Office,
Auckland, 25th October 1859.
THE following Prison Regulations for the Public Gaol at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, have been issued at the request of the Provincial Government.
FREDK. WHITAKER.
Whereas by an Ordinance of the Lieut.-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand, intituled \"An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,\" Session VII., No. 7, the Governor is empowered from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit, touching the duties of the officers of any public Gaol—the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and correction of the prisoners therein, and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any public Gaol, and the safe custody of the prisoners therein.
And whereas, by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony, intituled \"The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854,\" it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet for the employment, safe custody, management, and discipline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and to enforce the observance of such rules and regulations by solitary confinement as in the said Act provided, and by such other prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf: Provided always that no rule or regulation awarding any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the Government Gazette.
Now, therefore, I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance and Act respectively contained, do hereby make the following regulations for the purposes here-inbefore recited, and do publish the same to be in force within the Province of Otago.
As witness my hand this 25th day of October 1859.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency\'s command,
FRED. WHITAKER.
Rules for the Lock-up.
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Every prisoner on entering the Lock-up, and before being confined to a cell, to be searched in the presence of not less than two officers; and his name, country, religion, height, and general description to be entered in the register to be kept for that purpose; and when a prisoner is committed to Gaol the Chief Constable shall deliver to the Gaoler a copy of the above description for entry in the Gaol register and journal.
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All money, instruments, and other property on the person of any prisoner, to be taken from him; and a minute thereof specifying particulars, and signed by the Chief Constable, to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose.
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If a prisoner shall be discharged, the property so taken from him to be restored.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1860, No 106
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⚖️ Dunedin Gaol Regulations
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement25 October 1859
Gaol, Prison regulations, Dunedin, Penal servitude, Discipline, Lock-up
- James Macandrew, Superintendent
- Fredk. Whitaker, Attorney General
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor