Clause 17

Section 83 of the Prisons Act is amended by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections:“(2) Subject to subsection (3), any District Court or Magistrate’s Court shall, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68), have the jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act and to impose the full punishment in respect of the offence.(3) Any District Court or Magistrate’s Court shall, if it has jurisdiction under the Criminal Procedure Code to try an offence alleged to have been committed in breach of the basic condition of a remission order specified under section 50S, have the power to impose the full enhanced sentence under section 50T for that offence, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code.”.