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Prison Dresses shall be worn by all Prisoners unless Board of Superintendence shall otherwise, by special Order, direct.
Power to Lord Lieutenant to rescind special Order of Board.
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XIII. The Prison Dresses in the Seventy-eighth Section of the Prisons Act mentioned shall be worn by all Prisoners (whether of Ability to maintain themselves or not) who shall be sentenced to undergo any Term of Imprisonment exceeding One Month, unless the Board of Superintendence of the Prison wherein such Prisoners shall be confined shall, by a special Order in Writing entered on the Minutes of their Proceedings, and signed by a Majority of the Members of the said Board present at a Meeting thereof duly convened for the Purpose, otherwise direct: Provided nevertheless, that in all such Cases as last aforesaid, the Board shall enter upon their Minutes the special Circumstances under which such Order shall have been made, and shall forthwith furnish to the Inspectors General of Prisons a Statement or Report of such Circumstances, and of the Offence for which the Person respecting whom such Order shall have been given was sentenced, and of the Date and Particulars of such Sentence; and provided further, that if, upon any such Statement or Report being transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant by the Inspectors General of Prisons, it shall appear to the Lord Lieutenant that the special Order therein mentioned of the Board of Superintendence was not required or justified by the Circumstances in the said Statement or Report set forth, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, if he shall think proper so to do, by Order in Writing (under the Hand of the Chief or Under Secretary for Ireland for the Time being), to rescind any such special Order of the Board of Superintendence, and to direct that the Prison Dresses in the said Seventy-eighth Section of the Prisons Act mentioned shall be worn by the Prisoner or Prisoners, or any of them, in the said special Order mentioned.
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