Section 1, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) This Act shall apply to all correctional centresadministered by the Government, all inmates lawfully held in such correctional centres and to all members of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service. (2) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to render unlawful the detention of inmates in chiefdom or police detention centres or lockups. (3) The Minister may by order apply all or any of the provisions of this Act or any subsidiary legislation made under it to any correctional or detention centre or lock-up administered by the Government, any Chiefdom Council or by the Police or to any inmate or class of inmates detained in any correctional or detention centre or lock-up or to any person employed in the control or administration of any correctional or detention centre or lock-up. (4) The Minister may by statutory instrument revoke or vary any order made under subsection (3). (5) The Minister may in any order provide that in the application of any provision of this Act or any subsidiary legislation made under it to any correctional centre or lock-up or to any inmate or class of inmates or to any person employed in the control or administration of any correctional centre the provision shall be subject to such adaptations and modifications as he may think necessary.