(3)Duties of gate keepers when passing articles out of prison. - (i) Where any articles are to be sent out of the prison by means of head load or cartload or by any other means, they shall be so loaded in the presence of a responsible executive officer or technical assistant concerned. Such loads shall be accompanied with a pass giving the contents of the load. The executive officer of technical section concerned shall sign the pass.(ii)The pass shall be handed over at the gate to the gatekeeper who shall, in case of doubt, satisfy himself that the contents mentioned in the pass and the load tally, before allowing the load to go out of the gate.(iii)Any load not accompanied by a pass shall not be allowed to pass out of the gate.(iv)All passes so received at the gate including those for articles brought in the prison as well as passes in respect of admission of persons shall be pasted in a bound book, specially kept for the purpose, according to the chronological order of the dates of their receipt and preserved by the gate keeper in safe custody. Gatekeeper shall not bring in use a new book, unless the old one is handed over to the concerned staff for being preserved in the record room till such time as it is destroyed under the instructions for weeding the prison records.
