Chapter:	234A	Title:	PRISON RULES	Gazette Number:	15 of 1999
Rule:	21	Heading:	Children of female prisoners	Version Date:	01/07/1997

Amendments retroactively made - see 15 of 1999 s. 3

(1) The child of a female prisoner may be received into prison with its mother and kept during the normal period of lactation and any child so admitted shall not be taken from its mother until the Medical Officer certifies that it is in a fit condition to be removed.
(2) When any child received into prison under paragraph (1) is over the age of 9 months or attains that age while in prison the Medical Officer shall report to the Commissioner whether, in his opinion, it is necessary or desirable that such child should be retained in prison. The Commissioner may commit such child to the care of such relative of the child as may be willing and able to undertake such care and who may, in his opinion, be a fit and proper person to undertake such care. If the Commissioner is unable to find any relative of the child to whose care such child may properly be entrusted, then he may commit such child to the care of any person or institution approved by the Chief Executive. (15 of 1999 s. 3)
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) the Commissioner may permit any child to remain in the prison until the mother has completed her sentence or such child has attained the age of 3 years whichever is the earlier.
(4) Any child retained in prison may be supplied with clothing at the public expense.