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Legal Notice 235 of 1978

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The Public Security (Detained and Restricted Persons) Rules
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Legal Notice 235 of 1978
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Preservation of Public Security Act
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31 December 2022
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LAWS OF KENYA

PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC SECURITY ACT

THE PUBLIC SECURITY (DETAINED AND RESTRICTED PERSONS) RULES

LEGAL NOTICE 235 OF 1978

  • Published in Kenya Gazette Vol. LXXX—No. 45 on 10 November 1978
  • Commenced on 17 October 1978
  1. [Revised by 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023) on 31 December 2022]

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Citation

These Rules may be cited as the Public Security (Detained and Restricted Persons) Rules and shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 17th October, 1978.

2. Interpretation

(1)In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Prisons;"detention officer" means an officer in charge, or any member of the Kenya Prisons Service of whatever rank;"major offence" means any of the acts specified in Part II of the Schedule to these Rules;"minor offence" means any of the acts specified in Part I of the Schedule to these Rules;"officer in charge" means a person appointed under rule 4(1) to be in charge of a place of detention;"the Regulations" means the Public Security (Detained and Restricted Persons Regulations, 1978.
(2)Expressions used in these Rules have the same respective meanings as the same expressions have in the Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires.

Part II – APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES OF CAMP STAFF

3. Responsibility of Commissioner

The Commissioner shall be responsible for the general control and administration of all places of detention and for ensuring that these Rules are complied with in regard thereto.

4. Appointment and general duties of officers in charge

(1)The Cabinet Secretary shall, in respect of every place of detention, appoint a person to be the officer in charge thereof.
(2)The officer in charge shall detain and keep in custody every detained person lawfully detained in the place of detention of which he is in charge and every detained person duly conveyed to the place of detention under the authority of a detention order or transferred to the place of detention under the authority of a removal order, until such person is lawfully discharged or removed from his custody.
(3)The officer in charge shall, subject to the control of the Commissioner, have and be responsible for the control and administration of the place of detention in respect of which he is appointed, and shall be responsible to the Commissioner for the treatment of detained persons in his custody and the conduct of detention officers under his control, and for the due observance by them of these Rules.
(4)In the case of the incapacity or absence from a place of detention of the officer in charge thereof, his powers and duties shall, unless the Commissioner in any particular case otherwise directs, be performed by the most senior detention officer present in the place of detention.

5. Particular duties of officer in charge

It shall be the particular duty of the officer in charge—
(a)to inspect or cause to be inspected daily all wards, cells, yards, workshops, kitchens, latrines and other parts of the place of detention, to visit or cause to be visited daily all detained persons employed at work while so employed and as far as possible to see every detained person every day; and to record in his journal the extent (if any) to which such inspections and visits have not, on any particular day, been performed;
(b)to ensure that there is at all times a duty officer on duty at the place of detention, who shall not leave the place of detention until properly relieved;
(c)to take every precaution to prevent the escape of detained persons, and to ensure that all detention officers are familiar with and efficient in performing their duties in regard to preventing escapes;
(d)to require reports to be made to him accounting for all detained persons in his custody at the daily unlock and lock-up in the place of detention, at such hours as they go to and return from work and at such other times as may be necessary;
(e)to ensure that the cells and wards are unlocked and locked up at the proper times and that detained persons go to and return from their work in an orderly manner under proper escorts;
(f)at least twice a week to visit every part of the place of detention at some hour of the night between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., and record the visits in his journal and the hour thereof and the condition of the place of detention;
(g)without delay, to call the attention of the medical officer to any detained person whose state of mind or body appears to require attention, and carry into effect any written directions of the medical officer requiring the alteration of the discipline, treatment, diet or work of the detained person;
(h)to supply the medical officer daily with a list of the detained persons under punishment for offences under these Rules;
(i)without delay to notify the medical officer in writing of the illness of any detention officer or detained person and to supply him daily with a list of the detained persons who have reported sick;
(j)to visit the hospital or sick bay in the place of detention daily and see all detained persons therein, and to ensure that proper arrangements exist for the safe custody of the sick detained persons and those persons employed on hospital duties;
(k)upon the death of any detained person immediately to give notice in writing to the Commissioner and to the nearest magistrate empowered to hold inquests, and to report to the Commissioner the finding and other facts and circumstances which may be disclosed at any inquest held on a detained person;
(l)to cause all his orders respecting the administration, discipline and security of the place of detention to be communicated to the detention officers concerned therewith, and to record all such orders in the officer in charge’s order book;
(m)to hear application from detained persons daily at such hour as may be most convenient;
(n)to ensure that a detained person having a complaint or request to make shall have adequate facilities for doing so, and to redress any legitimate grievance or to take such steps in relation thereto as may be requisite; and to enter particulars of every such complaint or request, together with his decision thereon, in the complaints and requests book;
(o)to forward to the Commissioner any complaint against a detention officer which he is not competent or willing to deal with, together with any explanation which the officer may have made;
(p)to ensure that every detained person undergoing cellular punishment for an offence is under constant supervision of a detention officer;
(q)to attend every infliction of corporal punishment in the place of detention, to ensure that such punishment has been awarded and is administered in accordance with the law and to record the same and any special circumstances connected with it in his journal;
(r)to report to the Commissioner every occasion on which he punishes a detention officer, stating the nature of the offence and the punishment awarded;
(s)to ensure that all detention officers under him maintain proper discipline among themselves and in relation to the detained persons, and that they maintain and wear their clothing in a clean and proper manner and condition;
(t)to keep a journal, to enter therein the number of detained persons daily unlocked and locked up, and matters of importance which have occurred during the day, and any omission of duty and the reason for such omission;
(u)to keep safely and look after all stores, furniture, tools, clothing, arms and ammunition kept in his place of detention; and to keep proper records and accounts in relation thereto;
(v)to keep the following records, unless the Commissioner otherwise direct—
(i)admission register;
(ii)ration register;
(iii)lock-up register;
(iv)discharge register;
(v)working party register;
(vi)equipment register;
(vii)staff duty rosters;
(viii)detained persons and staff punishment books;
(ix)weight book;
(x)medical officer’s day book;
(xi)register of deaths;
(xii)cash book;
(xiii)visitor’s book;
(xiv)inventory of detained persons’ effects;
(xv)withheld letters book;
(xvi)journal of officer in charge;
(xvii)officer in charge’s order book;
(xviii)complaints and requests book;
(xix)record of inquiries and punishments;
(xx)alarm and riot orders;
(xxi)fire orders;
(xxii)search book;
(xxiii)detained persons record;
(w)to be responsible for the safe custody of all records, orders and other documents committed to his care and of all money, clothing and other property taken from detained persons;
(x)to take every precaution to ensure the maximum security of detained persons, with particular reference to the physical condition of the place of detention, adequacy of guards and staff on duty, lighting, alarm system and orders, riot drill and other relevant matters;
(y)to take such steps as he may consider necessary or desirable with respect to the segregation of the various classes of detained persons in the place of detention;
(z)on his discovering any deficiency in regard to the quality, quantity or kind of food, to take such steps in the matter as may be necessary.

6. Detention officers

(1)The Commissioner shall make available such number of detention officers as he thinks necessary to ensure the safe custody of detained persons in places of detention and for the control and proper governance and administration of places of detention.
(2)It shall be the duty of detention officers to do all things that are necessary for preventing detained persons from escaping and for maintaining good order in the place of detention, and for ensuring that these Rules are observed as far as it is within their competence to do so.

Part III – GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING PLACES OF DETENTION

7. Work

(1)The officer in charge may require detained persons to do such work as he considers necessary for the purpose of keeping their accommodation, furniture and utensils clean and of maintaining the place of detention in good order and in a clean condition.
(2)
(a)Every detained person in a place of detention may volunteer to work on work approved by the Commissioner.
(b)The total hours of work in such cases shall not exceed eight in any one day.
(c)A detained person who volunteers to work shall be eligible to participate in an earnings scheme as provided for in rule 19 of the Prisons Rules (Cap. 90, Sub. Leg) and shall be placed in a progressive stage system of privileges as authorized by the Commissioner.
(3)A detained person shall not be required to do work before he has eaten his morning meal, nor if he is on a penal diet.

8. Prevention of disease

A medical officer may take, or order the taking of, such steps, including the compulsory inoculation or vaccination of detained persons, as he considers necessary to avoid the spread of any disease or infection in or from any place of detention.

9. Visit by ministers of religion

Ministers of religion shall be admitted to the place of detention at proper and reasonable times to visit detained persons who wish to see them, at such hours and at such places as the officer in charge may allow, in the sight and hearing of a detention officer.

10. Visits by police officers

A police officer may, with the approval of the officer in charge and on production of an order in writing from a police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, visit a detained person in the sight and hearing of a detention officer.

11. Access to camps

Subject to rules 9 and 10 of these Rules no person shall be permitted to enter or be within the limits of any place of detention except detained persons, detention officers and those persons (hereinafter referred to as visitors) who have been authorized in writing by the Commissioner or by the officer in charge to enter.

12. Visitors

(1)No visitor shall converse or hold any intercourse with a detained person in a place of detention unless his written authority expressly permits him to visit that particular detained person.
(2)Every visitor shall, unless the officer in charge in writing exempts him wholly or in part from this requirements, during the whole of his visit be kept within the sight and hearing of the officer in charge or a detention officer appointed by him for the purpose, and where such officer does not understand the language spoken, of an interpreter.

13. Penalty for possession by visitor of certain things

(1)If anything is found as a result of a search under rule 12 of these Rules which is prohibited or which, in the opinion of the officer in charge, is likely to be dangerous to the life or health of any detained person or to facilitate escape from the place of detention, he may impound such thing, and the person in whose possession it is found shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2)Where any person is convicted of an offence under paragraph (1) of this rule, the court may, in addition to imposing any of the penalties therein provided, direct that the thing so impounded be forfeited.
(3)The officer in charge shall cause to be entered in the visitor’s book the name and address of every person presenting himself for admission to the place of detention as a visitor, and he, and any detention officer, may at any time demand the name and address of a visitor or intending visitor.
(4)Where a detention officer has reason to suspect that a visitor or person presenting himself for admission to the place of detention as a visitor is carrying or has about his person anything the possession of which in a place of detention is prohibited, or which is likely to be dangerous to the life or health of any person in the place of detention or to facilitate escape from the place of detention, he may search such visitor or cause him to be searched, but no detained person or other visitors shall be present during the search, nor shall any more force be used than is necessary for the purpose; and if any intended visitor refuses to permit himself to be searched he shall be denied admission and the grounds of such denial and the particulars thereof shall be entered in the visitor’s book.
(5)The officer in charge may require a visitor whose continued presence in the place of detention is considered to be prejudicial to the good governance of the place of detention or whose visit he considers to have been of sufficient duration to leave the place of detention, and may cause any visitor who refuses or fails to comply with such a requirement to be removed from the place of detention.

14. Articles for personal use

(1)So far as may be reasonably practicable and subject to the directions of the officer in charge as regards quantity, a detained person may secure such articles for his personal use as are consistent with good order and discipline.
(2)The officer in charge shall impound anything found in the place of detention the possession of which is prohibited or which, in his opinion, is likely to be dangerous to health or life, or to facilitate escape.

15. Books and papers

(1)The officer in charge may, so far as is consistent with the proper discipline of the place of detention and the preservation of public security, allow a detained person the use of books and papers received or procured through him or with his consent.
(2)The officer in charge may impound any book or paper which in his opinion contains any objectionable matter, and any person aggrieved by such action may appeal to the Commissioner.

16. Prohibited articles

Save as is otherwise provided by these Rules, no detained person shall at any time be in possession of any weapon, spirituous liquor, or intoxicating or poisonous drug, or any unauthorized letter, food, clothing or other article.

17. Letters

Subject to rule 24 of these Rules, detained persons may receive and send letters at the discretion of the officer in charge.

18. Censorship and withholding of letters

(1)Every letter addressed to or written by a detained person shall be read by the officer in charge of the place of detention or by a detention officer deputed by him, and if such officer considers the contents objectionable the letter shall not be forwarded, or the objectionable part thereof shall be erased, at the discretion of the officer.
(2)Where a letter written by a detained person is withheld under paragraph (1) of this regulation, the detained person shall be informed, and he may be given the opportunity of rewriting the letter, omitting the objectionable matter.
(3)A letter addressed to a detained person whose contents are considered objectionable shall be returned to the writer with an invitation to write another letter which does not contain the objectionable matter.
(4)The Cabinet Secretary may prohibit a particular detained person from receiving or writing letters, where he is of the opinion that it is desirable to do so in the interests of the preservation of public security, and where he does so he shall notify the Commissioner who shall cause that person to be informed thereof; and all letters which that person is prohibited from receiving shall be returned to the writer with a notification of the prohibition.
(5)The officer in charge shall keep a register of letters to and from detained persons, and shall record therein any prohibition under paragraph (4) of this rule, and any action taken in withholding letters or returning letters to the writer.
(6)No detained person shall be allowed to communicate with the Press.

19. Classes and library

Every detained person who is not undergoing punishment shall be entitled to attend such school classes as may be organized by the officer in charge for the place of detention in which he is, and to make use of any library established in the place of detention by the officer in charge in accordance with such library rules as the officer in charge may make.

20. Rules for management of places of detention

The following rules shall apply for the regulation of the management of places of detention—
(a)unlock—cells and wards shall be unlocked at 6 a.m. each morning or at such later hour as the Commissioner may direct;
(b)morning meal—the morning meal shall be taken between 6.30 a.m. and 7 a.m.;
(c)working parties—working parties shall be formed and put to work at 7 a.m.;if a working party is to work more than three miles away from the places of detention it shall be transported to and from work;
(d)mid-day meal—there shall be a rest period of one hour from 12 noon until 1 p.m. each day, and the midday meal shall be served during that period; a working party which is working more than half a mile away from the place of detention shall be sent its mid-day meal;
(e)hour when work ceases—work inside the places of detention shall cease at 4 p.m. on weekdays other than Saturdays and at 12 noon on Saturdays; work outside the place of detention shall cease in time for the workers to reach the place of detention by 4 p.m. on weekdays other than Saturdays and by 12 noon on Saturdays;
(f)weather—a detained person shall not be sent outside the place of detention in wet or inclement weather;
(g)bathing—where bathing facilities exist, detained persons shall bathe daily after work and before the evening meal is served;
(h)lock-up—lock-up shall take place under the supervision of the officer in charge or the next most senior detention officer;
(i)washing of clothes—on Saturday afternoons all detained persons shall be given the opportunity to wash their clothes;
(j)medical inspection—every detained person shall be medically inspected once a month by a medical officer;
(k)weighing of detained persons—every detained person shall be weighed once a month and his weight entered in a weight book kept for the purpose, and the weight book shall be produced to the medical officer when he makes his monthly inspection;
(l)haircutting—a male detained person may be required by a detention officer to have his hair cut short;
(m)sanitation—every ward and every cell shall be disinfected and cleaned every morning; the walls and ceilings shall be swept and white washed as often as occasion demands and thorough ventilation shall be effected by leaving the doors open where practicable; the night soil buckets shall be removed and emptied every morning after the working parties have been put to work; the buckets shall remain in the open during the day and shall be brought in in the afternoon in a clean condition; clean drinking water in suitable receptacles shall be placed in every ward and every cell before lock-up; in fine weather the sleeping mats and blankets of the detained persons shall every morning be shaken and placed in the sun and adequately aired, and shall then be neatly folded and returned to the wards and cells before noon;
(n)exercise—every detained person who is not employed on voluntary work and every detained person confined in a punishment cell shall be permitted to take exercise in the open air for one hour daily;
(o)days of rest—save in exceptional circumstances, which shall be reported to the Commissioner, Sundays and public holidays shall be observed as days of rest; and on such days facilities may be afforded to detained persons for taking exercise, for washing and for attending church services;
(p)cellular confinement—no cell shall be used for cellular confinement unless it is provided with a means whereby the detained person may at any time communicate with a detention officer;
(q)entry of cells or wards by night—except in the case of sickness or emergency, no detention officer shall enter a detained person’s cell or ward at night unless he is accompanied by another detention officer;
(r)segregation—male and female detained persons shall at all times be kept separate, and female detained persons shall be attended by female detention officers;
(s)entry of female detained person’s cell or ward—no male detention officer shall enter a cell or ward in which a female detained person is confined unless he is accompanied by a female detention officer;
(t)every detained person shall be supplied with and shall wear clothing approved by the Commissioner.

21. Communication with detained persons

(1)No detention officer shall allow any undue familiarity between a detained person, nor shall he discuss his duties or any matters of discipline or administration within the hearing of a detained person.
(2)No detention officer shall communicate with a detained person except in accordance with these Rules or the instructions of the Cabinet Secretary.

22. Use of force

(1)A detention officer may use such force against a detained person as is reasonably necessary in order to make him obey lawful orders which he refuses to obey or in order to maintain discipline in a place of detention, but he shall not use any more force than is necessary.
(2)A detention officer shall not deliberately act in a manner calculated to provoke a detained person.

23. Use of weapons

A detention officer may use any weapons which have been issued to him, including firearms, against a detained person if the detained person—
(a)is escaping or attempting to escape and refuses, when called upon, to return; or
(b)is engaged with other persons in breaking out or attempting to break out of any part of a place of detention and continues to break out or attempts to break out when called upon to desist; or
(c)is engaged with others in riotous behaviour in a place of detention and when called upon refuses to desist; or
(d)is endangering the life of, or is likely to inflict grave injury to the detention officer or to any other detention officer or person, and the use of weapons, including firearms, is the only way of controlling the detained person:
Provided that—
(i)weapons shall not be used as authorized in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this rule unless the detention officer has reasonable cause to believe he cannot otherwise prevent the escape, breaking out or riotous behaviour as the case may be; and
(ii)the use of weapons under this rule shall as far as possible be to disable and not to kill.

24. Rations

The officer in charge shall issue rations to detained persons in his place of detention in accordance with the scales for the time being in force under the Prisons Rules (Cap. 90, Sub. Leg).

25. Rights of a detained person

(1)A detained person who is not employed on voluntary work shall be entitled to the basic diet; a detained person who is employed on voluntary work shall be entitled to the full diet unless he is employed on heavy work when he shall be entitled to the heavy worker’s diet (such diets being the diets of those names set out in the First Schedule to the Prisons Rules).
(2)In the event of there being any question as to which scale of diet is appropriate to a particular detained person, the question shall be decided by the medical officer in consultation with the officer in charge.
(3)The food shall be wholesome in quality and prepared and cooked in clean containers.
(4)The quality and quantity of the food shall be tested as often as is practicable by a detention officer and by the medical officer or, in the absence of the medical officer, by a medical subordinate.
(5)The prescribed weights in the daily scales are the weight of the food before it is cooked.
(6)The daily scales shall not be departed from except with the consent of the Commissioner, or, in the case of a particular detained person, on the written recomm- endation of the medical officer where that officer considers it advisable in the interests of the detained person’s health; and every such alteration shall be entered daily in the hospital diet sheet of the place of detention, and recorded daily in the ration register.

Part IV – PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENCES

26. Punishment for minor offences

The officer in charge of a place of detention may punish any detained person therein who is found after due inquiry by him to be guilty of a minor offence by ordering such person to undergo one or more of the following punishments—
(a)confinement in a cell or other place set aside for such punishment with or without penal diet (as described in the First Schedule to the Prisons Rules, Cap. 90 Sub. Leg), for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours;
(b)deprivation, for such period as the officer in charge may think fit, of any privilege relating to food, books, clothing, letters or any other matter or thing whatever of which such person may be in enjoyment;
(c)where the offence is that of having in his possession any prohibited article, the forfeiture thereof;
(d)where, in the course or as a result of the commission of the offence, any article of Government property or any article belonging to any other person is lost, destroyed or damaged, payment to the Government or to such other person, as the case may be, out of any moneys held or accrued or accruing to the credit of such person, of the cost, or any part of the cost, of the replacement or repair of that article.

27. Punishment for major offences

The officer in charge of a place of detention may punish any detained person therein who is found after due inquiry by him to be guilty of a major offence by ordering such person to undergo one or more of the following punishments—
(a)confinement in a cell or other place set aside for such punishment, with or without penal diet (as described in the First Schedule to the Prisons Rules (Cap. 90, Sub. Leg.), for a period not exceeding sixteen days;
(b)corporal punishment in the cases, and in the manner, prescribed by the Prisons Act (Cap. 90) and the Prisons Rules (Cap. 90, Sub. Leg);
(c)where, in the course or as a result of the commission of the offence, any article of Government property or any article belonging to any other person is lost, destroyed or damaged, payment to the Government or to such other person, as the case may be, out of any moneys held or accrued or accruing to the credit of such person, of the cost, or any part of the cost, of the replacement or repair of such article:
Provided that—
(i)an offender shall not be confined under paragraph (a) of this regulation for more than seven days at a time, and an interval of seven days shall elapse before a further period of such confinement;
(ii)an offender shall not be held on penal diet for more than three days at a time, and an interval of one day shall elapse before a further period of penal diet.

28. Record of inquiries and punishments

The officer in charge shall keep a record of all inquiries made by him, and of all punishments ordered by him, under this Part.

29. Punishments for second and subsequent major offences

Any detained person who, having been punished for a major offence, commits another major offence, shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction by a court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

SCHEDULE

Part I – MINOR OFFENCES

The following acts committed by a detained person in a place of detention are minor offences—
(1)assaulting, fighting or quarrelling with any other detained person in the place of detention;
(2)making a groundless complaint;
(3)wilfully making a false accusation against a detention officer;
(4)holding any communication in writing, or by word of mouth or otherwise, with any person in disobedience of regulations or orders in force in the place of detention;
(5)doing any act calculated to cause unnecessary alarm among detained persons in the place of detention or among detention officers;
(6)omitting or refusing to march as ordered, when moving about the place of detention or when proceeding to or returning from work;
(7)refusing, without a proper reason, to eat the food provided;
(8)eating or appropriating any food not assigned to him, or taking from or adding to the portions of food assigned to another person;
(9)without the permission of a detention officer, removing food from a cookhouse or place where meals are served, or disobeying any order as to the issue or distribution of food or drink;
(10)wilfully destroying food, or throwing it away without orders;
(11)introducing into food or drink anything calculated to render it unpalatable or unwholesome;
(12)omitting or refusing to wear the clothing issued to him, or exchanging any portion of it for the clothing of another person, or losing, discarding, damaging or altering any part of it;
(13)removing, defacing or altering any distinctive number, mark or badge attached to or worn on such clothing;
(14)omitting or refusing to keep his person clean, or disobeying an order as to cutting hair or as to shaving the face;
(15)omitting or refusing to keep clothing, blankets or bedding clean, or disobeying an order as to the arrangement or disposition of any such articles;
(16)tampering in any way with any locks, lamps or lights or other public property without authority;
(17)stealing clothing, or any part of the equipment of any other person;
(18)committing a nuisance in any part of the place of detention;
(19)defacing or injuring the walls, furniture or other property belonging to the place of detention;
(20)spitting on or otherwise soiling any floor, door, wall or other part of the buildings of, or any article in, the place of detention;
(21)wilfully fouling any latrine or washing or bathing place;
(22)omitting or refusing to take due care of, or injuring, destroying, or misappropriating, any tools or any clothing or other articles, being public property;
(23)wilfully causing to himself any illness, injury or disability;
(24)causing, or omitting to assist the suppressing of, violence or insurbordination of any kind;
(25)disobeying any regulation or order in force in the place of detention or any lawful order of a detention officer, or omitting or refusing to perform duties in the manner required;
(26)treating with disrespect or insolence any detention officer, or any visitor to the place of detention, or any person employed in or in connexion with the place of detention;
(27)being idle, careless or negligent at work, or refusing to work when lawfully required to do so;
(28)leaving his cell, or other place in which he is required to be, or his place of work, without permission;
(29)having in his possession any articles which he is not allowed to have in his possession;
(30)shouting or making unnecessary noise;
(31)malingering;
(32)wilfully making a false accusation against any other detained person in the place of detention;
(33)failing to report for or refusing to undergo medical treatment;
(34)insulting, threatening or using indecent language, or immoral, disorderly or indecent behaviour;
(35)any minor assault or act of violence;
(36)any other act, conduct, disorder or neglect to the prejudice of good order order or discipline;
(37)attempting to commit, or aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of, any of the minor offences aforementioned.

Part II – MAJOR OFFENCES

The following acts committed by a detained person in a place of detention are major offences—
(1)assaulting or attacking, or taking part in any assault or attack upon, a detention officer, any visitor to the place of detention or any person employed in or in connexion with the place of detention;
(2)any aggravated or repeated assault on another detained person in the place of detention;
(3)conspiring or attempting to escape or assisting an escape;
(4)mutiny or incitement to mutiny;
(5)bringing or attempting to bribe a detention officer, any visitor to the place of detention or any person employed in or in connexion with the place of detention;
(6)committing any act of gross misconduct or gross insubordination;
(7)attempting to commit, or aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of, any of the major offences aforementioned.
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