Criminal Justice Act, 1960

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Criminal Justice Act, 1960 1960 27

No. 27/1960:

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT, 1960


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Definitions.

2 Temporary release of persons from prisons and from Saint Patrick's Institution.

3 Temporary release of criminal lunatics.

4 Conditions in relation to temporary release.

5 Power to suspend currency of sentence in respect of period of temporary release.

6 Persons unlawfully at large.

7 Arrest of persons unlawfully at large.

8 Extension of powers in relation to the places of confinement of criminal lunatics.

9 Remand or committal for trial or sentence of certain young persons to remand institutions.

10 Power of Minister to transfer a person detained under section 9.

11 Lawful custody of persons detained under sections 9 and 10.

12 Discontinuance of use of term "Borstal.".

13 Sentencing of certain young persons to detention in Saint Patrick's Institution.

14 Expenses.

15 Short title.


AN ACT TO AMEND CRIMINAL LAW AND ADMINISTRATION.

[26th July, 1960.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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