|
|
Interpretation.
|
3. In this Act,—
|
|
| |
The term “county” shall extend to and include county of a city, county of a town, city and county, city, and town:
|
|
| |
The term “grand jury” shall, as regards any borough, the town council of which is authorised to make presentments for the prisons thereof, include such council:
|
|
| |
The term “assizes” shall include presenting term:
|
|
| |
The term “treasurer of the county” shall include any person or persons or bank performing duties analogous to those of the “treasurer of the county” in any county, and in the application of this Act to the county of Dublin it shall include the finance committee:
|
|
| |
The term “secretary to the grand jury” shall, as regards any borough the town council of which is authorised to make presentments for the prisons thereof, include the town clerk:
|
| |
7 Geo. 4. c. 74.
|
|
| |
The term “Prisons Acts” shall mean the Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826, and the Acts altering, amending, or affecting the same:
|
|
| |
The term “ordinary prison” shall mean any gaol, district bridewell, bridewell, and prison under the Prisons Acts:
|
| |
17 & 18 Vict. c. 76.
|
|
| |
The term “Convict Prisons Acts” shall mean the Convict Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1854, and the Acts altering, amending, or affecting the same:
|
|
| |
The term “convict prison” shall mean any prison under the control and management of the directors of convict prisons for Ireland under the Convict Prisons Acts:
|
|
| |
The term “prison” shall include convict prison and ordinary prisons:
|
|
| |
The term “prisoner” for the purposes of this Act means any person committed to prison on remand or for trial, safe custody, punishment, or otherwise; and the term “maintenance of a prisoner” includes all necessary expenses incurred in respect of a prisoner for food, clothing, and custody; and also for his safe conduct and removal from one place of confinement to another from the period of his being received into prison, on committal for trial, or on summary conviction, until his death or discharge from prison; with this proviso, that nothing in this Act shall exempt a prisoner from payment of any costs or expenses in respect of his conveyance to prison or otherwise which he would have been liable to pay if this Act had not been passed:
|
|
| |
The term “governor” shall include the gaoler or keeper of any prison:
|
|
| |
The term “medical officer” shall include surgeon and physician:
|
| |
8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.
|
| |
23 & 24 Vict. c. 106.
|
| |
14 & 15 Vict. c. 70.
|
| |
23 & 24 Vict. c. 97.
|
| |
27 & 28 Vict. c. 71.
|
|
| |
The term “property” shall include things in action and rights of action:
|
|
| |
The term “Lands Clauses Acts” shall mean the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, as the same is amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1851; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1860; the Railways Act (Ireland), 1864; and the Railway Traverse Act.
|
| |
Part I.
|
| |
General Prisons Board.
|
