Prison (Officers' Superannuation) Act, 1886

Explanation of prison service in 40 & 41 Vict. cc. 21, 49, 53.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 33.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 58.

1. It is hereby declared that in the Prison Acts of 1877 mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, the expression “prison service” includes as respects the period after the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, service in a military prison under the Army Act, 1879, or the Army Act, 1881, and service in a naval prison under the Naval Discipline Act, and annuities by way of superannuation allowance and gratuities may accordingly be granted to any officer of a prison, and apportioned in manner provided by the said Prison Acts.