Section 49

49. If any prisoner is guilty of repeated offences against prison discipline, or is guilty of any offence against prison discipline which the Superintendent thinks A 8 250 Prisons. [ACT XXVI thinks is not adequately punishable under section forty-eight, the Superintendent shall report the same to the Magistrate of the District or any Magistrate empowered to receive complaints without reference by the Magistrate of the District. Such Magistrate shall have power to inquire upon oath and to determine concerning any matter so reported to him, and to sentence the offender to be punished by confinement in a punishment-cell or in irons for any term not exceeding six months, or by corporal punishment not exceeding thirty stripes of a ratan. or by rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, such term to be in addition to the term for which he is undergoing imprisonment. Nothing in this or the last preceding section shall authorize the infliction of corporal punishment, or confinement in irons, on any female prisoner or any civil prisoner. Corporal punishment. Penalty on officers ill-treating prisoners or violating rules.