Singapore legislation

Regulation 6

of Criminal Procedure Code (Corrective Training and Preventive Detention) Regulations 2010

Regulation 6

Punishment by Superintendent for minor prison offences

Subregulation 1

The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of a minor prison offence as specified in regulation 8 by ordering him to undergo one or more of the following punishments:

(a)

confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;

(b)

postponement for a period of not more than 14 days at any one time, of the date on which the prisoner becomes eligible under regulation 5 for release on licence;

(c)

reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be determined by the Superintendent; and

(d)

a written warning.

Subregulation 2

The Superintendent shall enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by him upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of his offence and the extent of his punishment.