unless the warrant of commitment or order relating to any prisoner
confined under the Regulation for the confinement of State
Prisoners, otherwise directs, every state prisoner shall be deemed to
be civil prisoner and entered in civil prisoner's register.
When to be treated as an unconvicted criminal prisoner.
Rule424. If the warrant or order relating to any state
prisoner directs that he be confined in the criminal prison, he shall,
for the purposes of the Prisons Act 1894, be treated as unconvicted
criminal prisoner.
Report to Government regarding state prisoners.
Rule425. Every officer in whose custody any state prisoner
may be placed shall, as soon after taking such prisoner into custody
as may be practicable, report to Government whether the decree of
confinement to which he may be subjected appears liable to injure
his health, and whether the allowance fixed for his support is
adequate
for
the
supply of his own wants and those of his family, according to
their status in life.
Note. The report should be submitted through the
[Sessions Judge and District Coordination Officer).
Inspector General to issue orders.
Rule426. The Inspector General shall issue such orders as
he may consider necessary and as are not inconsistent with the
instructions of Government for the health and comfort of every
state prisoner.
Officers to submit periodical reports.
Rule427. (i) Every Superintendent of a prison in whose
custody any state prisoner is confined shall in 1st January and 1st
of July each year submit to the District Coordination Officer a
report on the conduct, health and comfort of such prisoner; and
also submit a copy of this report to the Inspector General for
information.
(ii) The officer in whose custody any state prisoner is
placed shall forward, with such observations as may appear
necessary, every representation which such state prisoner may
from time to time be desirous of submitting to the Government.
No state prisoner to be transferred.
Rule 428. No state prisoner shall be transferred from
one prison to another, except under the special orders of the
Government.
Appropriation of allowances.
Rule 429. Every officer in whose custody any state
prisoner is placed shall take care that the allowance fixed for the
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