General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Visiting committees.

24. A visiting committee shall, at such time in each year and in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant shall by order from time to time prescribe, be appointed by the grand jury of every county for every prison the board of superintendence of which shall have been dissolved by this Act, consisting of such numbers of persons being justices of the peace as, having regard to the locality of such prison and to the class of prisoners to be confined in such prison, may from time to time be determined by the Lord Lieutenant.