Singapore legislation
Section 71
Section 71
Punishment by Superintendent for aggravated prison offences
(1)
The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated prison offence as specified in section 73 by ordering the prisoner to undergo one or more of the following punishments:
corporal punishment not exceeding 12 strokes with a rattan;
confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;
forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be prescribed.
(2)
Where the Superintendent has imposed any punishment upon any prisoner under subsection (1), the Superintendent must notify the Commissioner of the facts of the case and the punishment imposed on the prisoner not later than 7 days after imposition of the punishment.
(3)
The Commissioner may within 14 days, or such longer period as may be required in exceptional cases, of being notified by the Superintendent under subsection (2) —
confirm any punishment imposed by the Superintendent under subsection (1); or
vary any punishment imposed by a Superintendent under subsection (1), including enhancing, reducing or substituting the punishment imposed by the Superintendent or imposing any additional punishment that could have been awarded by the Superintendent under that subsection.
(4)
Where the Commissioner imposes forfeiture of remission under subsection (3)(b), the forfeiture of remission must not exceed such amount as may be prescribed.
(5)
Any punishment imposed by a Superintendent under subsection (1) must not be carried out until confirmed, or varied, by the Commissioner under subsection (3).
(6)
The Superintendent must enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by the Superintendent and by the Commissioner under subsection (3) upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of his or her offence and the extent of his or her punishment.