LawgistThe Prisons Act
6Officers 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 1[the State Government of Bombay] may 2*** 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.
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1 Subs. by the A. O. 1937, for "the Governor of Bombay in Council".
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C." omitted, ibid.
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