General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

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Board to make reports.

15. The General Prisons Board shall, at such time or times as the Lord Lieutenant may appoint, make a report or reports to the Lord Lieutenant of the condition of the prisons and prisoners within their jurisdiction, and with respect to the registration of criminals; and an annual report to be made by them with respect to every prison within their jurisdiction shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

Such report shall include a yearly return of all punishments of any kind which may have been inflicted within each prison, and the offences for which such punishments were inflicted.

So much of any Statute in force immediately before the time of the passing of this Act as would impose upon the General Prisons Board any obligation to make any report shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and the several reports in this section mentioned shall be in substitution for all the reports heretofore made by the inspectors general of prisons, the directors of convict prisons, and the registrar of criminals respectively.