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1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 33. s. 16.
Sect. 18.
When central asylum has been erected, lord lieutenant may order the removal of criminal lunatics to such asylum.
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8. And whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act to make more effectual provision for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor, and for the custody of insane persons charged with offences in Ireland,” it is amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the lord lieutenant to give such order for the safe custody and care of criminals found insane as in the said Act mentioned, during the pleasure of the lord lieutenant, in such place and in such manner as should seem fit; and it is by said Act further provided and enacted, that whenever and as soon as there should be a lunatic asylum built or maintained, either wholly or in part, in any county, county of a city, or county of a town wherein such prisoner as therein mentioned, should be tried or found insane as therein mentioned, then and from thenceforth such insane person should without delay be removed to such asylum as therein mentioned, and should be kept therein so long as such prisoner should be detained in custody: Be it enacted, that whenever and as soon as the said central asylum shall be erected, and fit for the reception of criminal lunatics, it shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant to order and direct that all criminal lunatics then in custody in any lunatic asylum or gaol, or who shall thereafter be in custody, shall be removed without delay to such central asylum, and shall be kept therein so long as such criminal lunatics respectively shall be detained in custody.
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