Prisons(Amendment) Act (No. 21 of 1958)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 36 of the principal enactment

3. Section 36 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -

(1) in subsection (1) of that section-

	(a) by the relettering of paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection as paragraphs (c) and (d) of that subsection;;

(b) by the insertion, immediately before relettered paragraph (c) of that subsection, of the following new paragraphs :-

" (a) to hold a meeting of the board at least once in three months ;

(b) to elect a chairman from among the members at the first meeting held after the appointment of the board ; " ; and

(2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection : -

	" (1A) The chairman of the Board of Prison Visitors shall, unless he earlier resigns the office of such chairman or ceases to be a member of the board, hold such office during the term for which he is a member of the board.".