Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Discipline and Prison Offences
70. Punishment by Superintendent for minor prison offences
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The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of a minor prison offence as specified in section 72 with one or more of the following punishments:
Superintendent
“Superintendent” means a Superintendent of Prisons appointed under section 20;
confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;
forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be prescribed;
a written warning;
in the case of a prisoner subject to a home detention order under section 52, extension of the hours to which the prisoner is required to remain indoors under the conditions of the order;
if the prisoner is subject to an SPP or SEPP, postponement of the date on which the prisoner may be released on a release order for a period that may be prescribed.
The Superintendent must enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by the Superintendent upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of the prisoner’s offence and the extent of his or her punishment.
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;