confined with other casual prisoners, but a prisoner so transferred
shall not otherwise be subject to the special rules affecting habitual
criminals.
(vii) "juvenile", means any prisoner who has not attained
the age of eighteen years:
COMMENTS
A person below eighteen years in age but above 7 years has
been defined as a child in light of the United Nations Child Rights
Convention (CRC) ratified by Pakistan for the special treatment of
children in community based corrective, rehabilitative and
resociaization programmes. The Juvenile Justice System
Ordinance, 2000 was legislated by the Pakistan Government for
uniform adoption by the Capital City Islamabad and all the
provinces. The ICT model Juvenile Justice Rules, 2001 are given in
the second book followed by Punjab Rules, 2002 in this behalf.
(viii) "special prison", means any prison provided for
confinement of a particular class or classes
prisoners, and classed as special prison
Government;
ix) "under sentence", means under sentence
imprisonment of either description;
the
of
by
of
(x) "subordinate officer", means and includes every officer
of a prison other than the Superintendent and Medical
Officer;
(xi)
"Warder", means a head warder, or a warder for
purposes of duty;
(xii) "Inspector-General", means Inspector-General, for the
time being of prisons in a Province;
(xiii) "Government", means the Government of the
Province; and words importing masculine gender
shall be taken, to include females and the words in
singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
(xiv)
The Government may amend any rule.
CHAPTER- 2
Classification of Prisons
Four kinds of Prisons,
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