Prisons Act, 1956
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Number 9 of 1956. | ||||||||||
PRISONS ACT, 1956. | ||||||||||
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS | ||||||||||
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Number 9 of 1956. | ||||||||||
PRISONS ACT, 1956. | ||||||||||
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION OF PRISONERS. [21st March, 1956.] | ||||||||||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:— | ||||||||||
Lock-ups. |
1.—A prisoner may be detained temporarily in a lock-up provided in a Garda Síochána station or in any other place, being a place designated for the purpose by the Minister for Justice,— | |||||||||
(a) while in transit from a prison to a court for trial or on adjournment or remand; | ||||||||||
(b) while a case in which he is involved is at hearing; | ||||||||||
(c) for a period of not more than forty-eight hours while awaiting removal to a prison on conviction or remand. | ||||||||||
Repeal. |
2.— Section 23 of the General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877 , is hereby repealed. | |||||||||
Short title, collective citation and construction. |
3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Prisons Act, 1956. | |||||||||
(2) The Prisons (Ireland) Acts, 1826 to 1933, and this Act may be cited together as the Prisons Acts, 1826 to 1956, and shall be construed as one. |