Part of: Section 50 — Medical Officer to certify to fitness of prisoner for punishment
(1) No punishment of penal diet, either singly or in combination, or of whipping, or of change of labour under section 46, clause ( 2), shall be executed until the prisoner to whom such punishment has been awarded has been examined by 17 the Medical Officer, who, if he considers the prisoner fit to undergo the punishment, shall certify accordingly in the appropriate column of the punishment -book pres cribed in section 12.