Section 6: Officers of prisons

For every prison there shall be a Superintendent, a Medical Officer (who may also be the Superintendent), a Medical Subordinate, a Jailer and such other officers as the State Government thinks necessary :

Provided that [the State Government of Bombay] may *** declare by order in writing that in any prison specified in the order the office of Jailer shall be held by the person appointed to be Superintendent.

State amendments to this section

Maharashtra.—

Amendment of section 6 of Act IX of 1894.—In section 6 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section.

(2) In sub-section (1) so renumbered—

(a) after the words "a Superintendent" the brackets and words "(who may be a Deputy Inspector-General of Prisons" shall be inserted;

(b) the words "a Medical Subordinate" shall be deleted;

(c) after the said sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—

"(2) Where one or more Deputy Superintendents are appointed for a prison, they shall, subject to the general or special orders of the Inspector-General, exercise, carry out or discharge all or any of the powers, duties and functions of a Superintendent under this Act, or any law for the time being in force, as the Superintendent may delegate to them."

[Vide Bombay Act XLV of 1959, s. 3]

Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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