Section 4: Regulations

(1) The President may by regulation prescribe or provide for-
(a) the regulation and government of remand centres and borstal institutions;
(b) the appointment, powers, duties, conduct and disciplinary control of the officers and other persons employed in remand centres or borstal institutions;
(c) the functions and duties of visitors, visiting committees and voluntary visitors;
(d) the classification, treatment, diet, clothing, maintenance, employment, discharge, discipline, instruction and control of inmates;
(e) the release of inmates on parole;
(f) the establishment of after-care associations, that is to say, organisations for the welfare and reformation of persons discharged from borstal institutions;
(g) the form in which any order shall be made;
(h) such matters as are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or provided for by regulations,
and generally for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act.
(2)
Regulations made under subsection (1) of this section may provide that any regulations made under the Prisons Act shall apply in relation to remand centres or borstal institutions as they apply in relation to prisons, subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be prescribed.