This Act may be cited as the Prisons Amendment Act, 1912, and shall form part of and be read together with the Prisons Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation, make regulations as to the photographing and taking of measurements and finger-prints of all prisoners convicted or accused of any criminal offence who are for the time being confined in any prison or police-gaol; and any such regulation may provide for the use of reasonable force in order to ensure compliance therewith, and may also provide for the destruction of any records taken in the case of persons not subsequently convicted of any criminal offence, and of any other records the preservation of which is no longer desirable.

Any prisoner who refuses to obey any such regulation, after the same has been read to him by an officer of the prison or police-gaol, shall be deemed to be guilty of an aggravated prison offence within the meaning of section twenty-six of the principal Act.

The Governor may from time to time appoint a Deputy Inspector of Prisons who shall perform such official duties as may be prescribed by regulations.