Zambia Correctional Service Act
ZambiaAct of Parliament
The Zambia Correctional Service Act is an Act of the Parliament of Zambia. It contains 143 sections. Read its sections below, or ask Levy any question about the Zambia Correctional Service Act and get an answer grounded in the Act with citations.
Sections of the Zambia Correctional Service Act
- S. 1Short title and commencement
- S. 2Interpretati on
- S. 3Purposes of sentence of imprisonment
- S. 4Guiding principles
- S. 5Functions of Service
- S. 6Commissioner-General, Deputy Commissioner-General and Commissioner
- S. 7Appointment of correctional officer
- S. 8Officer-in-charge
- S. 9Correctional centre where officer-in-charge is not appointed
- S. 10Declarati on of pris on or correctional centre
- S. 11Temporary pris on or correctional centre
- S. 12Deployment of correctional officers to pris on or correctional centre
- S. 13Direct or Correctional Health Services
- S. 14Appointment of health practitioner
- S. 15Medical inspecti on
- S. 16Observati on of inmate charged with capital offence
- S. 17Examinati on of inmate in separate confinement or in health facility
- S. 18Powers of the officer-in-charge to order examinati on of inmate
- S. 19Death of inmate
- S. 20Notificati on of death of an inmate
- S. 21Functions of correctional officer
- S. 22Correctional officer to exercise same powers of police officer
- S. 23Power to examine pers on or vehicle
- S. 24Punishment by correctional officer
- S. 25Use of weap on by correctional officer
- S. 26Power to arrest
- S. 27Power to take photographs, fingerprints, etc, of inmate
- S. 28Non-liability f or act done under authority of warrant
- S. 29Admissi on of inmates
- S. 30Admissi on of expectant m other and circumstantial child
- S. 31Particulars of inmate to be recorded
- S. 32Provisi on of informati on to inmate
- S. 33Access to legal aid
- S. 34Search of inmate
- S. 35Custody and disposal of money and other effects of inmate
- S. 36Separati on of inmates
- S. 37Custody of inmates
- S. 38Removal of rem and inmate by probati on officer
- S. 39Producti on of inmate in court f or civil proceedings
- S. 40Inmate under police escort
- S. 41Statement to police officer
- S. 42Release of inmate f or investigati on
- S. 43Removal of inmate from one correctional centre to an other
- S. 44Mechanical restraint of inmate
- S. 45Mental health status of inmate
- S. 46Removal of sick inmate to health facility
- S. 47Removal of inmate to quarantine centre
- S. 48Liability f or escape from health facility, designated health facility or
- S. 49Serving sentence in health facility, designated health facility or quarantine
- S. 50Rehabilitati on, reintegrati on and employment of inmate
- S. 51General requirement of work
- S. 52Work programmes and requirement to work
- S. 53Penalty f or introducti on or removal of prohibited articles in to and from
- S. 54Power of arrest
- S. 55Unauthorised communicati on
- S. 56Removal of pers on loitering
- S. 57Removal of offender
- S. 58Unlawful possessi on of articles supplied to correctional officer
- S. 59Assisting inmate to escape
- S. 60Harbouring inmate
- S. 61Offences in connecti on with uniform and decorati on
- S. 62Notice to be displayed stating offence
- S. 63Maintenance of unconvicted inmate from private source
- S. 64Food, etc., not to be transferred to other inmate
- S. 65Food, clothing and equipment f or unconvicted inmate
- S. 66Min or offence
- S. 67Punishment of min or offence by officer-in-charge
- S. 68Maj or offence
- S. 69Separati on of inmate charged with offence
- S. 70Hearing of maj or offences
- S. 71Punishment imposed by court
- S. 72Confinement in separate cell
- S. 73Period of confinement in separate cell
- S. 74Punishment in different pris on or correctional centre
- S. 75Remissi on of part of sentence of inmate
- S. 76Officer-in-charge to be responsible f or discharge of inmate
- S. 77Discharge of terminally ill inmate
- S. 78Day of discharge or release of inmate
- S. 79Travelling expense of inmate on discharge
- S. 80Continuati on of Parole Board
- S. 81Functions of Parole Board
- S. 82Provincial and District Parole Board
- S. 83Eligibility
- S. 84Release on licence of inmate serving life imprisonment
- S. 85Extensi on services and orders
- S. 86Eligibility f or extensi on services
- S. 87Afterc are order
- S. 88Failure to comply with afterc are order and commissi on of further offence
- S. 89Report on long term inmate
- S. 90Confinement of inmate sentenced to death
- S. 91Access to inmate sentenced to death
- S. 92Attendance at executi on by official
- S. 93Judge’s visit to pris on or correctional centre
- S. 94Visiting justice
- S. 95Record book of visiting justice
- S. 96Appointment of inspect or
- S. 97Functions of inspect or
- S. 98Record book of inspect or
- S. 99Minister of religi on visit to pris on or correctional centre
- S. 100Probati on officer and representative of n on-governmental organisati on
- S. 101Mutiny or sediti on
- S. 102Absence from duty and deserti on by correctional officer
- S. 103Inciting correctional officer to desert
- S. 104Other offences by correctional officer
- S. 105Correctional officer not to engage in illegal dealings with inmate
- S. 106Discipline of correctional officer
- S. 107Correctional officer not to be member of trade uni on
- S. 108Submissi on of list of detained persons to High Court
- S. 109Reward f or apprehensi on of escaped inmate
- S. 110Rewards
- S. 111Commutati on of death sentence to sentence of imprisonment
- S. 112Detenti on of inmate from an other country
- S. 113Removal of inmate to an other country
- S. 114Grant of permissi on to be absent from a pris on or correctional centre
- S. 115Record of correctional officer
- S. 116Witness’ expense
- S. 117Power to prosecute under other laws not affected
- S. 118Committee of inquiry
- S. 119Arms and accoutrements to be delivered on ceasing to belong to service
- S. 120General penalty
- S. 121Regulations
- S. 122Repeal of Cap. 97.
- S. 123Savings and transitional provisions
- S. in the proceedings.
- S. ISection I
- S. IISection II
- S. IIISection III
- S. IVSection IV
- S. IXSection IX
- S. VSection V
- S. VISection VI
- S. VIISection VII
- S. VIIISection VIII
- S. XSection X
- S. XISection XI
- S. XIISection XII
- S. XIIISection XIII
- S. XIVSection XIV
- S. XIXSection XIX
- S. XVSection XV
- S. XVISection XVI
- S. XVIISection XVII
- S. XVIIISection XVIII