Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856

Board of Superintendence to report Fire, &c. to Inspectors General.

Report of Completion of Works to be forwarded to Inspectors General.

Form of annual Returns, &c.

V. In case of any Fire or other sudden Accident happening in or to any County Prison, Gaol, Bridewell, or House of Correction in the Fourteenth Section of the Prisons Act mentioned, or any Part thereof respectively, the Board of Superintendence of such Prison shall, as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, forward a Report of such Fire or sudden Accident to One of the Inspectors General of Prisons in Ireland; and whensoever any such Building or other Work as is mentioned in the Forty-third Section of the Prisons Act shall be completed or finished, the Commissioners in the same Section mentioned shall, so soon thereafter as conveniently may be, forward a Report of the Completion of such Work to the said Inspectors General of Prisons; and the annual Return of the State of every Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction, or other County Prison, which the Gaoler of the same is, by the Fifty-seventh Section of the Prisons Act, directed to transmit to One of the said Inspectors General of Prisons, shall be in the Form in the same Section mentioned, or in such other Form as the Lord Lieutenant shall from Time to Time in that Behalf direct.