Prison (Officers' Superannuation) Act, 1886

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PRISON (OFFICERS' SUPERANNUATION) ACT 1886

CHAPTER IX.

An Act to amend the Prisons Act of 1877, so far as regards the Superannuation of Prison Officers. [16th April 1886.]

[Preamble recites 40 & 41 Vict. cc. 21, 49, 53.]

Explanation of prison service in 40 & 41 Vict. cc. 21, 49, 53.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 33.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 58.

1. It is hereby declared that in the Prison Acts of 1877 mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, the expression “prison service” includes as respects the period after the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, service in a military prison under the Army Act, 1879, or the Army Act, 1881, and service in a naval prison under the Naval Discipline Act, and annuities by way of superannuation allowance and gratuities may accordingly be granted to any officer of a prison, and apportioned in manner provided by the said Prison Acts.

Short title and construction.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 63.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 21.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 53.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 49.

2. This Act may be cited as the Prison (Officers’ Superannuation) Act, 1886.

This Act so far as it affects any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall be construed as one with that Act.

This Act and the Prison (Officers’ Superannuation) Act, 1878,—

(a.) so far as they relate to England may be cited together with the Prison Act, 1877, as the Prison Acts, 1877 to 1886, and

(b.) so far as they relate to Scotland may be cited together with the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877, as the Prison (Scotland) Acts, 1877 to 1886; and

(c.) so far as they relate to Ireland may be cited together with the General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877, as the Prison (Ireland) Acts, 1877 to 1886.

SCHEDULE.

Prison Acts referred to.

Sect. 1