place as close as possible to the time fixed for operation and the prisoner should be brought back to the prison hospital as soon as this can conveniently be done. (iv) Prisoners admitted in hospital outside the prison shall always be guarded by the Police. (v) All expenses incurred by the hospital authorities in connection with the treatment of prisoners from prison will be borne by the Health Department. CHAPTER-8 Remission System Definitions. Rule198. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say— (a) "convicted prisoner" means a person sentenced to imprisonment and committed to prison, and includes a person committed to prison in default of furnishing security to keep the peace or to be good behaviour; (b) "Lifer" means a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for life; such sentence shall mean twenty five years rigorous imprisonment; and (c) "sentence" means a sentence as finally fixed ok appeal, revision or otherwise, and includes an aggregate of more sentences than one, and an order of committal to prison in default of furnishing security to keep the peace or be of good behaviour. Definition of remission system. Rule199. Remission system is an arrangement by which a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment, whether by one sentence or by consecutive sentences, for a period of four months or more may by good conduct and industry become eligible for release when a portion of his sentence ordinarily not exceeding one-third of the whole sentence has yet to run. Nature of Remission. Rule 200. Remission under these rules may be ordinary or special. Cases in which no ordinary remission is earned. Rule 201. --Ordinary remission shall not be earned in respect of:74