section 2
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The Rajasthan Prisons Act, 2023Criminal202328 sections
Statutory text
- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
- (a) means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner;
- (b) mpetent authority as declared by the Government;
- (e) detenue means any person detained in prison on the orders of the competent authority under the relevant preventive laws and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974);
- (f) Prisons and includes Additional Director General of Prisons;
- • propensity towards violence, escape, self-harm, disorderly behaviour, and likely to create unrest in the prison and threat to public order and includes persons intermittently suffering from suicidal tendencies and persons with substance-related and addictive disorders leading to intermittent violent behaviour; by the general or special orders of the Government to be a medical officer; assistant as appointed by the Government; from the prison under rules for the time being in force; temporarily under the general or special order of the Government for the detention of prisoners and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto but does not include-
- (i) any place for the confinement of the prisoner who are exclusively in the custody of the police;
- (ii) any place specially declared by the Government under section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974); or
- (iii) any place, which has been declared by the Government by general or special order, to be a special prison.
- (n) duly committed to prison custody by a court or authority exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction, or by a court martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (Central Act No. 2 of 1974) or under any other law;
- (o) or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act; Competent Authority under this Act;
- (q) in force regulating the award of marks to, and the consequent shortening of sentences of, prisoners in prison; (r)
- (s) by the Government to be in charge of a prison with such designation as it may specify; and
- (t) is remanded to judicial custody during inquiry or trial.
- (2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian Penal Code,1860 (Central Act No. 45 to 1860), the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974) and the Rajasthan General Clauses Act, 1955 (Act No. 8 of 1955) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Code/Acts.
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