s 3 Power to declare prisons
3. The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette —(a) declare any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, to be a prison for the purposes of this Act for the imprisonment or detention of persons lawfully in custody; (b) define which prisons may be used for the custody of particular classes of prisoners; (c) declare that any prison ceases to be a prison; and on the publication in the Gazette of the declaration, or from and after any later date specified in the declaration, that prison ceases to be a prison; and (d) declare any prison, house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, to be a reformative training centre for the detention of persons sentenced to reformative training.