Petty Sessions, Ireland, Amendment Act, 1861

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PETTY SESSIONS, IRELAND, AMENDMENT ACT 1861

CHAPTER XLIX.

An Act to enable Justices in Ireland to commit to local Bridewells Persons convicted of Drunkenness [1st August 1861.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the imprisonment of persons convicted of drunkenness in Ireland:

Short title.

1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as “The Petty Sessions, Ireland, Amendment Act, 1861.”

Committal for drunkenness for periods of not less than forty-eight hours.

2. In every case in which any justice of the peace shall order any person to be committed to gaol for drunkenness for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours, such committal may be to any local or neighbouring bridewell, although the same may not be a district or certified bridewell, any Act or Acts of Parliament or law to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.