Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856
PRISONS (IRELAND) ACT 1856 | ||
C A P. LXVIII. | ||
An Act to further amend the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland. [21st July 1856.] | ||
7 G. 4. c. 74. | ||
6 & 7 W. 4. c. 51. | ||
3 & 4 Vict. c. 44. | ||
5 & 6 Vict. c. 95. | ||
12 & 13 Vict. c. 97. | ||
‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-four, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland: And whereas an Act was passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-one, intituled An Act for converting the Richmond General Penitentiary into one of the Prisons of the County of the City of Dublin, and to amend the Law relating to Prisons in Ireland: And whereas an Act was passed in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-four, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Fourth, for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland: And whereas an Act was passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Ninety-five, intituled An Act for consolidating the Four Courts Marshalsea Dublin, Sheriff’s Prison Dublin, and for regulating the Four Courts Marshalsea, in Ireland: And whereas an Act was passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Ninety-seven, intituled “The Dublin Improvement Act, 1849,” the Fifty-first Section of which alters and amends the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth: And whereas it is expedient further to amend the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: |