Section 3
Power to declare prisons
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Section 3
The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette —
(a)
declare any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, to be a prison for the purposes of this Act for the imprisonment or detention of persons lawfully in custody;
(b)
define which prisons may be used for the custody of particular classes of prisoners;
(c)
declare that any prison ceases to be a prison; and on the publication in the Gazette of the declaration, or from and after any later date specified in the declaration, that prison ceases to be a prison; and
(d)
declare any prison, house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, to be a reformative training centre for the detention of persons sentenced to reformative training.