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Power to Lord Lieutenant to alter legal condition of prisons.
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30. The Lord Lieutenant may by order from time to time close any prison or prisons, or may direct that any prison shall be a legal place of confinement only for certain classes of prisoners specified in such order, and that any part of the same shall be closed: Provided, that in every county there remain one prison, unless the Lord Lieutenant otherwise order for special reasons to be stated in his order.
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Whenever the Lord Lieutenant shall have made any such order, a prison or prisons shall be named in such order to which prisoners who but for such order would have been confined in the prison so wholly or in part closed, shall be removed or committed, and in which they shall be kept in custody, and any such substituted prison shall thenceforth and so long as such order is in force, for all purposes relating to the committal detention trial, and punishment of the prisoners so removed and of the prisoners committed thereto in pursuance of this section, be deemed to be a legal place of confinement, and such prisoners shall, during removal to and during such time as they shall be in such substituted prison, be deemed to be in the proper legal custody in every respect, and no such removal shall be deemed an escape.
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Every order of the Lord Lieutenant made under the provisions of this section whereby the only prison in any county shall be directed to be closed, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith, if Parliament be sitting at the time of the order being made, or if not then sitting, within one month after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.
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