6. Officers of prisons
For every prison there shall be a Superintendent, a Medical Officer (who may also be the Superintendent), a Medical Subordinate, a Jailer and such other officers as the State Government thinks necessary :
Provided that [the State Government of Bombay] may *** declare by order in writing that in any prison specified in the order the office of Jailer shall be held by the person appointed to be Superintendent.
Amendment notes (2)
- Subs Subs. by the A. O. 1937, for "the Governor of Bombay in Council".
- omitted The words "with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C." omitted, ibid.
State amendments
Maharashtra.—
Amendment of section 6 of Act IX of 1894.—In section 6 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section.
(2) In sub-section (1) so renumbered—
(a) after the words "a Superintendent" the brackets and words "(who may be a Deputy Inspector-General of Prisons" shall be inserted;
(b) the words "a Medical Subordinate" shall be deleted;
(c) after the said sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—
"(2) Where one or more Deputy Superintendents are appointed for a prison, they shall, subject to the general or special orders of the Inspector-General, exercise, carry out or discharge all or any of the powers, duties and functions of a Superintendent under this Act, or any law for the time being in force, as the Superintendent may delegate to them."
[Vide Bombay Act XLV of 1959, s. 3]