Prison Act 1952

5X1Annual report of Prison Commissioners.E+W

[F1(1)The Secretary of State shall issue an annual report on every prison and shall lay every such report before Parliament.]

(2)The report shall contain—

(a)a statement of the accommodation of each prison and the daily average and highest number of prisoners confined therein;

(b)such particulars of the work done by prisoners in each prison, including the kind and quantities of articles produced and the number of prisoners employed, as may in the opinion of the Secretary of State give the best information to Parliament;

(c)a statement of the punishments inflicted in each prison and of the offences for which they were inflicted, . . . F2

Editorial Information

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Textual Amendments

F1S. 5(1) substituted by S.I. 1963/597, Sch. 1