Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Custody and Removal of Prisoners
33. Prisoners deemed in legal custody
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prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
Every prisoner is subject to the prison discipline and regulations during the whole time of his or her imprisonment, whether or not he or she is within the precincts of any prison.
prison
“prison” means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a prison or reformative training centre under section 3, and includes the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure and also the airing grounds or other grounds or buildings belonging or attached thereto and used by prisoners;