Description of fetters which may be used. Rule 649. Bar fetters shall be used for safe custody inside the prison and link-fetters ordinarily for prisoners working in parties outside the prison. Prisoners exempted absolutely. Rule 650. Fetters shall not to be imposed on the following: (i) Women prisoners; (ii) Civil prisoners; (iii) Convict officers; and (iv) Prisoners who by reason of age, physical infirmity or serious illness, are, in the opinion of the Senior Medical Officer, unfit to be placed in fetters. Prisoners ordinarily exempted. Rule 651. Fetters shall not ordinarily be imposed on the following except for special reasons which shall be recorded by the Superintendent on their History Tickets:(i) prisoners, the unexpired period of whose term of imprisonment is less than six months; (ii) prisoners who have undergone three-fourth of their substantive sentence of imprisonment; (iii) under-trial prisoners; (iv) prisoners under sentence of death; or (v) prisoners who are being produced in Court. Imposition of handcuffs. Rule 652. Handcuffs may, as a measure of restraint, be imposed on any prisoner, if the Superintendent is of the opinion that their imposition is necessary for the protection of the prisoner himself or any other person. Fetters to be examined daily. Rule 653. (i) Fetters imposed on prisoners for safe custody shall be examined daily by a head warder and once a 224