Cap. 220 Art. 128Imprisonment and detention rules.

(1) The Minister may make rules (in this Act referred to as Imprisonment and Detention Rules) with respect to all or any of the following matters:

(a) the places in which and the establishments or forms of custody (whether military or not) in which persons may be required to serve the whole or any part of military sentences of imprisonment and detention passed on them;

(b) the committal of persons under military sentences of imprisonment or detention to the appropriate establishment or form of custody, their removal from one country or place to another and from one establishment or form of custody to another and their release on the coming to an end of any term of imprisonment or detention;

(c) the provision, classification, regulation and management of military establishments;

(d) the classification, treatment, employment, discipline and control of persons serving military sentences of imprisonment or detention in military establishments or otherwise in military custody;

(e) the temporary release on compassionate grounds of persons serving such sentences in such establishments or custody as aforesaid, the cases in which, periods for which and conditions subject to which they may be allowed out of any such establishment or custody and the remission of part of any such sentence for good conduct and industry;

(f) the appointment, powers and duties of inspectors, visitors and governors, and of officers and other members of the staff, of military establishments.

(2) Until Imprisonment and Detention Rules are made a sentence of imprisonment under this Act shall be served in the Civil Prisons, and a sentence of detention under this Act shall be served in a detention barrack or in military custody but not in a prison.

(3) Subject to any provision contained in Imprisonment and Detention Rules, a military prisoner shall, while in a civil prison, be confined and otherwise dealt with in the same manner as a civil prisoner under a like sentence of imprisonment.

(4) The provisions of article 4(5) and (6) shall apply to Imprisonment and Detention Rules as they apply to regulations and orders made under that article.