CRIMINAL CODE
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any other person, not employed on duty nor specially authorized by
the Minister responsible for the prisons, to have access to him.
(2) No term of solitary confinement shall exceed ten
continuous days.
Duration of each
term of solitary
confinement.
(3) More terms of solitary confinement may only be applied
with an interval of two months between one term and another.
Rules to be
observed.
(4) Nevertheless, solitary confinement may be applied during
those intervals in case of any infringement of the prison
regulations, or for any other offence committed during the said
intervals, provided that the terms be of short duration and that they
shall not together exceed fifteen days in any one interval.
(5) Where the law prescribes the punishment of solitary
confinement and does not specify the particular number of terms, it
shall not be lawful to inflict more than twelve terms of solitary
confinement.
(6) The punishment of solitary confinement is applied in the
cases prescribed by law.
(7) Before awarding the punishment of solitary confinement
the court shall satisfy itself, if necessary by medical evidence,
which may include a medical examination of the person convicted,
that the person convicted is fit to undergo the said punishment.
(8) Where, in the course of the execution of the punishment of
solitary confinement, the medical officer of the prison certifies in
w r i t i n g t h a t t h e p r i s o n e r i s n o l o n g e r f i t t o u n d e rg o s u c h
punishment, the execution of that punishment shall be suspended
until such time as the prisoner is again certified to be medically fit
to undergo such punishment.
10. (1) Interdiction is either general or special.
Interdiction.
Amended by:
XI. 1900.3;
VIII.1909.1;
VI. 1947.3.
(2) General interdiction disqualifies the person sentenced for
any public office or employment, generally.
General
interdiction.
(3) Special interdiction disqualifies the person sentenced from
holding some particular public office or employment, or from the
exercise of a particular profession, art, trade, or right, according to
the law in each particular case.
Special
interdiction.
(4)
time.
Duration of
interdiction.
Either kind of interdiction may be for life or for a stated
(5) Temporary interdiction shall be for a time not exceeding
five years, except where the law especially prescribes a longer
time.
(6) Interdiction, whether for life or for a stated time, may, upon
the application of the person sentenced to such punishment and on
good grounds being shown to the satisfaction of the court by which
the sentence was awarded, be discontinued at any time by order of
the said court.