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Position and duties of existing officers of prisons.
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27. The officers attached to prisons on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (in this Act referred to as existing officers of a prison) shall hold their offices by the same tenure, and upon like terms and conditions, as if this Act had not passed, and shall receive salaries of not less amount than those which they have hitherto received.
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Such existing officers as aforesaid (except all local inspectors, chaplains, medical officers, and apothecaries,) may be distributed amongst the several prisons to which this Act applies in such manner as may be directed by the General Prisons Board, and all such officers shall perform such duties as they may be required to perform by the said General Prisons Board, so that such duties are the same or analogous to those they performed previously to the commencement of this Act, and, subject as aforesaid, they shall perform the same duties as nearly as may be as they shall be performing at the said date.
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An existing officer of a prison who is at the commencement of this Act in the receipt of military or naval half-pay, or who has, at or before such commencement as aforesaid, commuted his pension in pursuance of the Pensions Commutation Act, 1871, or is in receipt of any pension payable out of public moneys, shall not be subject to any deduction from his salary, or to be deprived of any portion of his half-pay, or of his pension, by reason of his salary being thenceforward paid out of public moneys, or of his employment becoming a public employment, or an employment of profit under Her Majesty, within the meaning of the Acts of Parliament providing for such deduction of salary or deprivation of half-pay, nor be disqualified from receiving such half-pay or pension by reason of his becoming by virtue of this Act a civil servant of Her Majesty.
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No surgeon of the infirmary of any county shall be bound or required as a condition precedent to the making of any presentment for his salary as such surgeon under the provisions of the eighty-sixth section of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836, to give his attendance or assistance to the prisoners or others in the gaol of such county; but no such surgeon shall be entitled, save as provided by section thirty-four of this Act, to any compensation gratuity or allowance whatever by reason of the discontinuance of any attendance or assistance at any gaol which, but for the passing of this Act, he would have been bound to give as a condition precedent to the making of a presentment to him for his salary as surgeon to the county infirmary under the provisions of the said section.
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