Power to make rules

The State Government may make rules consistent with this Act,— (1) defining the acts which shall constitute prison offences; (2) determining the classification of prison-offences into serious and minor offences; (3) fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall be awardable for commission of prison offences or classes thereof; (4) declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison offence and an offence under the Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), may or may not be dealt with as a prison offence; (5) for the award of marks and the shortening of sentences; (6) regulating the use of arms against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of an outbreak or attempt to escape; (7) defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released; (8) for the classification of prisons, and description and construction of Wards, cells and other pieces of detention; (9) for the regulation by numbers, length or character of sentences or otherwise of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons; (10) for the Government of prisons and for the appointment of all officers appointed under this Act; (11) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost; (12) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons; (13) for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited; (14) for classifying and prescribing the forms of labour and regulating the periods of rest from labour; (15) for regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners; (16) for regulating the confinement in fetters of prisoners sentenced to transportation; (17) for the classification and the separation of prisoners; (18) for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under section 28;