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RULES AND REGULATIONS


35. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations referred to in section 41 of the Interpretation Act.
    (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations as follows:
 (a)
for the qualifications, duties and powers of probation officers;
 (b)
for the office and other accommodation and clerical and other assistance to be provided for a probation officer;
 (c)
for reports and returns by probation officers;
 (d)
for the management, operation, discipline and security of correctional centres and youth custody centres;
 (e)
prescribing the duties of any person employed in or about a correctional centre;
 (f)
for the diet, clothing, maintenance, employment, training and discipline of the inmates;
 (g)
governing inmates duly authorized to be absent from a correctional centre;
 (h)
establishing disciplinary panels;
 (i)
establishing a process by which decisions made or dispositions imposed by a disciplinary panel may be reviewed and establishing the practices and procedures to be used in that process;
 (j)
prescribing allowances for members of disciplinary panels who are not employees under the Public Service Act;
 (k)
for the disposal of unclaimed property abandoned by an inmate at a correctional centre or a young person at a youth custody centre;
 (l)
for the seizure and disposal of drugs, weapons or any other object that may threaten the management, operation, discipline or security of a correctional centre or a youth custody centre;
 (m)
prescribing the health care, diet, clothing, accommodation, education, training, employment, custody and discipline standards applicable to a young person held in a youth custody centre.
    (3) The minister must post in legible characters and in conspicuous parts of a correctional centre, so that every inmate may have notice, copies of those regulations made under subsection (2) (d) to (l) that relate to the treatment and conduct of the inmates.
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