s 44 Removal of prisoners
44.—(1) The Commissioner may, by written order, remove all or any prisoners confined in any prison to another prison within Singapore.[1/2014] (2) It is not necessary in the order under subsection (1) to designate any prisoner by name, but it is sufficient to describe the prisoner or prisoners by reference to their nationality or sentence, or by some other like general description. (3) If the Minister is satisfied that a person serving a sentence of imprisonment is under 21 years of age and might with advantage be detained in a reformative training centre, the Minister may, after consultation where practicable with the Judge or District Judge of the court which passed the sentence, authorise the Commissioner to transfer the person to a reformative training centre; and section 305(5) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 then applies to the person as if he or she had on the date of the transfer been sentenced to reformative training.[15/2010; 1/2014] (4) If on the date of the transfer under subsection (3), the unexpired term of the person’s sentence is less than 3 years, that subsection applies to the person as if he or she had been sentenced to reformative training 3 years before the expiry of that term. (5) If a person detained in a reformative training centre is reported to the Minister by the Commissioner to be incorrigible, or to be exercising a bad influence on the other inmates of the institution —(a) the Minister may commute the unexpired part of the term for which that person is then liable to be detained in a reformative training centre to such term of imprisonment as the Minister may determine, not exceeding the said unexpired part; and (b) for the purpose of this Act, that person is to be treated as if the person had been sentenced to imprisonment for that term.[1/2014]