59. Power to make rules. – (1) The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette] make rules consistent with this Act-
(1) defining the acts which shall constitute prison-offences; (2) determining the classification of prison-offences into serious and minor offences;
(3) fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall be awardable for commission of prison-offences or classes thereof;
(4) declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison-offence and an offence under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) may or may not be dealt with as a prison-offence;
(5) for the award of marks and the shortening of sentences;
(6) regulating the use of arms against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of an outbreak or attempt to escape;
(7) defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released;
(8) for the classification of prisons, and description and construction of wards, cells and other places of detention;
(9) for the regulation by numbers, length or character of sentences, or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons;
(10) for the government of prisons and for the appointment of all officers appointed under this Act;
(11) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost;
(12) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons;
(13) for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited;
(14) for classifying and prescribing the forms of labour and regulating the periods of rest from labour;
(15) for regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners;
(16) for regulating the confinement in fetters of prisoners sentenced to transportation;
(17) for the classification and the separation of prisoners;
(18) for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under section 28;
(19) for the preparation and maintenance of history-tickets;
(20) for the selection and appointment of prisoners as officers of prisons;
(21) for rewards for good conduct;
(22) for regulating the transfer of prisoners whose term of transportation or imprisonment is about to expire; subject, however, to the consent of the State Government of any other State to which a prisoner is to be transferred;
(23) for the treatment, transfer and disposal of criminal lunatics or recovered criminal lunatics confined in prisons;
(24) for regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and their communications with their friends;
(25) for the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons;
(26) for extending any or all of the provisions of this Act and of the rules thereunder to subsidiary jails or special places of confinement appointed under section 541 of the *[Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 (10 of 1882)] and to the officers employed, and the prisoners confined, therein;
(27) in regard to the admission, custody, employment, dieting, treatment and release of prisoners; and
(28) generally for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act.
**[(2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature] *[Now read Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973]
**[Inserted vide Act 4 of 1986, section. 2 and Sch. w.e.f. 15-5-1986]
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