CONVICTED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT ON PUBLIC WORK): SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

CONVICTED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT ON PUBLIC WORK): SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

CONVICTED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT ON PUBLIC WORK) RULES

deemed to be made under s. 8

G.N. 149/1948
152/1964(M)

1.    Citation

    These Rules may be cited as the Convicted Persons (Employment on Public Work) Rules.

2.    Minister may declare camps

    The Minister may by notice published in the Gazette declare any place to be a labour camp for the purpose of these Rules.

3.    Interpretation

    In these Rules—

    “camp” means a labour camp declared under rule 2;

    “labourer” means any person who has been ordered by a court to perform public work under section 3 of the Act and who has been directed by a District Commissioner to reside in a camp under section 5 (b) of the Act.

4.    Medical Examination

    Any person who has been ordered by a Court to perform public work may be permitted, at the discretion of the public officer having responsibility for the allocation of such work, to be examined by a medical officer who shall notify whether or not that person is fit to perform ordinary labour.

5.    Management of a camp

    Every camp shall be under the management of a public officer appointed by the Minister.

6.    Appointment of a clerk and labour supervisor

    The officer appointed as manager of the camp shall appoint one clerk in charge who shall be responsible for the keeping of camp stores, the issue of rations, the making of returns, and the sanitary condition of the camp.

7.    Provision of food

    Food shall be provided for labourers so far as possible in accordance with the diet prescribed in the Third Schedule to the Prison Regulations, and labourers shall partake of food before commencing and at the end of the day’s work:

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    Provided that it shall be lawful to pay such cash allowance, if any, as the Minister may, from time to time, determine, in lieu of food.

8.    Work to be performed

    Labourers shall unless a District Commissioner otherwise directs perform such work as is ordinarily performed by paid labourers employed by the Government department having management of the camp.

9.    Duty to obey orders

    Every labourer shall obey all lawful and reasonable orders given by a clerk in charge or supervisor of labour.

10.    Permission to leave camp

    Labourers may be given permission to leave the camp area from after work until sunset on Mondays to Fridays inclusive and from after work on Saturdays until sunset on the ensuing Sunday.

11.    Medical officer

    The officer in medical charge of the District in which a camp is declared under rule 2 shall visit such camp at least once in every month.

DECLARATION OF LABOUR CAMPS

under r. 2

of the Convicted Persons (Employment on Public Work) Rules

42 of 1967

    The following places have been declared to be labour camps for the purposes of the Convicted Persons (Employment on Public Work) Rules—

G.N.
128/1953

    (1) the buildings enclosed by a wire fence at Mpatamanga, in the Southern Region;

G.N.
129/1953

    (2) the buildings constructed for the purpose at the Agricultural Research Station, Chitedze, Lilongwe, in the Central Region;

G.N.
212/1953

    (3) The Kochirira Leper Settlement.

G.N.
116/1958(F)

    (4) Bvumbwe Experimental Station.