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Limitation of time of confinement in punishment cells. 7 Geo. 4. c. 74.
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55. It shall not be lawful for the governor of any prison in exercising the powers conferred upon him by the fifteenth rule contained in the hundred and ninth section of the Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826, to order any prisoner to be confined in a punishment cell for any term exceeding twenty-four hours; nor shall it be lawful for any justice in exercising the powers conferred by the sixteenth rule contained in the same section to order any prisoner to be confined in a punishment cell for any term exceeding fourteen days.
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