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ACT No1533
ACT No1533
1533
Section 1.1
Section 2.2
Section 3. If a prisoner be prevented from laboring by sickness, or from infirmity not evidently
imposed by himself, or by other cause for which he is not responsible, he shall be entitled for good
conduct to the same deduction from his sentence each month as above provided.
Section 4. For especially meritorious conduct the whole, or any portion, of the time lost through
infractions of the rules or discipline may be restored to the prisoner.
Section 5. Detention prisoners who voluntarily offer in writing to perform such labor as may be
assigned to them shall be entitled to a credit in accordance with the provisions of this Act, which
shall be deducted from such sentence as may be imposed upon them in the event of their
conviction.
Section 6.3
Section 7. Subject to such review, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Public Instruction, 4 the wardens or officers in charge
of Insular5 or provincial jails or prisons shall make and keep such records, and take such further
action as may be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act.
Section 8. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is
hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the
Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
RELATED STATUTES
Providing for the enforcement of conditions made in the exercise of the grant of
conditional pardon.
Providing for the payment of pecuniary aid to any national prisoner who may be injured or
disabled while preventing a prison riot or jail-break or while in the performance of duties
required of him in any prison industry and not due to his negligence.
Footnote
1 Repealed by Act 3815. Article 367, approved December 8, 1930. See Revised Penal Code, Article 97, providing allowance for good conduct.
2 Id.
3 Id.
5 Now National.