Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856

Agreements shall be laid before Grand Juries and Councils for Approval.

XLII. Whenever any Agreement shall have been so entered into and signed the joint Committee shall lay the same for Approval before the Grand Juries or Grand Jury and Council of the said County and Borough at the Assizes, if any then current, or at the Assizes holden next after the making thereof, and in the Case of the Council of the Borough at a Special Meeting to be convened for that Purpose, and shall deliver to such Grand Juries or Grand Jury and Council respectively a Duplicate of such Agreement to be filed by the Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk of such County or Borough, to be by them kept with the Records of the said County or Borough: Provided always, that no such Agreement shall be valid until the same shall have been approved of by the several Parties thereto in manner aforesaid, and until the same shall have been confirmed by the Lord Lieutenant as herein-after directed.