Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962

No: 11 Dated: Jun, 19 1962

The Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962

(Punjab Act No. 11 of 1962)

    An Act to provide for the temporary release of prisoners for good conduct on certain conditions.

    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows : -

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (a) The Act may be called the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962.

(b) It extends to the whole State of Punjab.

(c) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate of the District within whose jurisdiction the prisoner after his temporary release under this Act, is likely to reside during the period of his release;

(aa) "hardcore prisoner" means a person confined in prison under a sentence of imprisonment, who has been convicted of -

(i) an offence of rape with murder under section 376 read with section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860;

(ii) an offence punishable under section 14 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012;

(b) "member of prisoner's family" means the husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, grand-father, grandmother, grand-son, grand-daughter, father-in- law, mother-inlaw, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father's brother, father's sister, mother's brother or mother's sister of the prisoner;

(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;

(d) "prisoner" means a person confined in prison under a sentence of imprisonment;

(e) "Superintendent of Jail" means the Superintendent of the Jail in which the prisoner is undergoing his sentence of imprisonment.