131. Exemption of Correctional Service from certain taxes, duties and fees 132. Regulations 133. Indemnity and limitation of actions 134. Repeal of laws and savings 135. Short title and commencement Schedules BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of Namibia, as follows: Definitions 1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates - “Commissioner-General” means the Commissioner-General of Correctional Service appointed under Article 32(4)(c)(cc) of the Namibian Constitution; “correctional community centre” means a correctional community centre established under section 21, and includes a temporary correctional community centre declared under section 22; “correctional facility” means a correctional facility established under section 15, and includes a temporary correctional facility declared as such under section 16 and, for the purpose of sections 65 and 86 of this Act, includes every place used as a police cell or lock-up; “correctional officer” means a member of the Correctional Service of one of the prescribed ranks of correctional officers and for the purposes of section 11, includes a temporary correctional officer; “Correctional Service” means the Namibian Correctional Service established by section 2; “Council” means the Correctional Service Council established by section 12; means a court of law of competent jurisdiction; “day” means any day, including Saturday, Sunday or public holiday; “deputy officer in charge”, in relation to a correctional facility, means the correctional officer appointed under section 18(1) as deputy officer in charge of that correctional facility; “disciplinary board” means a disciplinary board appointed under section 51(1); “disciplinary inquiry”, in relation to a senior correctional officer, a disciplinary inquiry referred to in section 51 or, in relation to a junior correctional officer, section 54 or, in relation to an offender, section 88(1)(a); “disciplinary offence”, in relation to a correctional officer, means an offence referred to in section 50 or, in relation to an offender, sections 85 or 86; “infant” means a child younger than 2 years of age; “Inspector-General” the Inspector-General of Police referred to in Article 116 of the Namibian Constitution; “inmate” means any person, whether convicted or not, who is lawfully detained in a correctional facility; trial trial
Regulations 132. (1) The Minister may make regulations as to - (a) the manner, including contracts of employment, of appointment, training, promotion, posting, retirement, resignation, discharge on account of ill health or otherwise, transfer and, subject to section 13 of the Public Service Act, 1995 (Act No. 13 of 1995), the conditions of service, of correctional officers; (b) the retention of rank by a correctional officer on retirement or resignation and the award of honorary ranks; (c) the supply of uniforms to correctional officers; (d) the conduct, discipline and efficiency of correctional officers, including temporary correctional officers; (e) the occupation of official quarters by correctional officers and members employed in the Correctional Service; (f) the classification of correctional facilities, the general supervision and management thereof, the maintenance of good order and discipline therein and the treatment and conduct of offenders; (g) the quorum, acting chairperson, procedure at meetings, form of minutes, reports or recommendation of the National Release Board; (h) the mode of supplying food and the scales of diet and the quantity and quality of clothing and necessaries for offenders; (i) the safe custody of offenders when performing work or otherwise; (j) the receipt and safe custody at correctional facilities of valuables, or other articles belonging to any offender, and the conditions and circumstances under which payment, deposit, or delivery of such money, valuables or other articles must be made during the period of detention of any offender; (k) the introduction into, or conveyance out of, any correctional facility of any food, drink, bedding, clothing, books, newspapers, letters, documents or any other articles; (l) the searching of offenders and of correctional officers and of all quarters and other places within any correctional facility occupied or frequented by such offenders or correctional officers and, subject to Article 13 of the Namibian Constitution, the seizure and examination of any letter or communication addressed to or received by any offender or correctional officer; (m) the articles or objects which are prohibited articles for purposes of this Act, the confiscation or disposal of all articles unlawfully introduced into or being taken out of any correctional facility or found in or near any correctional facility and of all clothing belonging to offenders which by reason of its condition or for any other valid cause it is undesirable to keep;