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 - means the Commissioner-General of Correctional Service appointed “Commissioner-General” under Article 32(4)(c)(cc) of the Namibian Constitution; community centre” means a correctional community centre established under “correctional section 21, and includes a temporary correctional community centre declared under section 22; facility” means a correctional facility established under section 15, and includes a “correctional 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; officer” means a member of the Correctional Service of one of the prescribed “correctional ranks of correctional officers and for the purposes of section 11, includes a temporary correctional officer; Service” means the Namibian Correctional Service established by section 2; “Correctional means the Correctional Service Council established by section 12; “Council” means a court of law of competent jurisdiction; means any day, including Saturday, Sunday or public holiday; “day” officer in charge”, in relation to a correctional facility, means the correctional officer “deputy appointed under section 18(1) as deputy officer in charge of that correctional facility; board” means a disciplinary board appointed under section 51(1); “disciplinary inquiry”, in relation to a senior correctional officer, trial a disciplinary inquiry “disciplinary 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); offence”, in relation to a correctional officer, means an offence referred to in “disciplinary section 50 or, in relation to an offender, sections 85 or 86; means a child younger than 2 years of age; “infant” trial the Inspector-General of Police referred to in Article 116 of the “Inspector-General” Namibian Constitution; means any person, whether convicted or not, who is lawfully detained in a correctional “inmate” facility;
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
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