General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Amendment of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 85. s. 4 and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 59. s. 15, as to payment of certain expenses.

21. The powers and duties vested in and imposed upon the several boards of superintendence by the fourth section of the Constabulary (Ireland) Act, 1851, as amended by this Act, and by the fifteenth section of the Irish Reformatory Schools Act, 1868, as to the payment of the expenses mentioned in the said sections, shall be transferred to the grand jury by which each such board of superintendence was customarily appointed; and the accounts prescribed by the said sections respectively shall be transmitted to the secretary of such grand jury at a reasonable time before each assizes; and the said sections shall be read and construed as if the grand jury of each county were named therein instead of the board of superintendence.

[S. 22 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.)]