Prisons (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1884

Joint visiting committees for prisons used for more counties than one.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 49.

3. Where any prison is not exclusively used for the confinement of prisoners belonging to any one county,—

A joint visiting committee may, notwithstanding anything contained in section twenty-four of the General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877, be appointed for such prison, if the Lord Lieutenant so orders;

A joint visiting committee shall consist of so many justices as the Lord Lieutenant shall prescribe, who shall be appointed by such grand juries, and in such proportions, as the Lord Lieutenant, having regard to the locality and use of the prison, and the class of prisoners confined therein, may from time to time order.