Prisons (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1884

Expense of prisoners.

2. The expenses incurred in respect of a prisoner for food, clothing, custody, safe-conduct, and removal from one place of confinement to another or otherwise, from the period when the order for his committal to prison is made until his death or discharge from prison, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, with this proviso, that nothing in this Act shall exempt a prisoner from payment of any costs or expenses in respect of his conveyance to prison or otherwise which he would have been liable to pay if this Act had not been passed.