Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Custody and Removal of Prisoners
49. Special custody in hospital
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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;
Such persons are vested with full power and authority to do all things necessary to prevent the prisoner from escaping, and are answerable for the prisoner’s safe custody until such time that the prisoner is handed over to a prison officer on the prisoner’s discharge from the hospital, mental hospital or place or until such time as his or her sentence expires, whichever may first occur.
prison officer
“prison officer” means any prison officer appointed under section 20 and includes the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and any Superintendent;