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Nauru Gaol and Prison Ordinance 1921

THE ISLAND OF NAURU
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NAURU GAOL AND PRISON ORDINANCE
1921*
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Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the Nauru Gaol and Prison Ordinance 1921,* and shall come into operation forthwith.

Confinement of offenders.

2. Offenders against the laws of the Island of Nauru, for which the punishment of imprisonment or imprisonment with hard labour is provided, shall be confined in a place or places set apart for the purpose by the Administrator.

Assisting prisoner to escape.

3. Any person who aids or assists any prisoner to escape from gaol, prison, hospital, place of employment, or lawful custody, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and may be fined any sum not exceeding £100, and be imprisoned for any period not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.

Unlawfully delivering articles to prisoners.

4. Any person who delivers or attempts to deliver, or causes to be delivered, or loiters about any prison or lands adjacent thereto for the purpose of delivering to any prisoner undergoing sentence any money, article of clothing, letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing not allowed by regulation, or deliver or cause to be delivered to any other person any such money, letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing for the purpose of being conveyed or introduced as aforesaid, or who secretes or leaves upon or about any place where such prisoner is usually employed any such money, letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing not allowed by regulation for the purpose of the same being found or received by such prisoner shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding £25, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months with or without hard labour.

Loitering in vicinity of goal or prison.

5. Any person loitering about any gaol or prison, or the land adjacent thereto, or a place where prisoners are employed on public works, or who refuses or neglects to depart therefrom upon being warned so to do by any prison official, shall be deemed to be loitering about for the purposes in the last preceding section mentioned.
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*No. 6, 1921; made by Administrator on 20th August, 1921.

Apprehension of persons unlawfully introducing things into goals or prisons.

6. If any person introduce or aid in the introduction into any gaol or prison of any thing not permitted by the regulation to be introduced therein, it shall be lawful for any gaoler or prison official to apprehend such offender and to take him before any duly constituted Court, and such person shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.

Communicating with prisoners.

7. Any person (except those in charge or duly authorized) communicating in any manner with any offender sentenced to imprisonment, or to imprisonment with hard labour, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine not exceeding £5, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month, unless fine should be sooner paid.

Rules.

8. The Administrator may make rules for the good order and discipline of any prison or prisons and the safe custody of prisoners, and such rules shall be binding on all persons in the same manner as if they were inserted in the body of this Ordinance.

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