General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Saving as to commitment of prisoners.

39. Subject to this Act, and any rules made in pursuance thereof, prisoners may be committed to the same prison to which they might have been committed if this Act had not passed.

The committal or imprisonment of a prisoner to or in a prison, if otherwise valid, shall not be illegal by reason only that such prisoner ought, according to the law for the time being in force, to have been committed to or imprisoned in some other prison, but any such prisoner as is mentioned in this section shall, on application made on his behalf in a summary manner to any judge of any of Her Majesty's superior courts of law in Dublin, be entitled to be removed at the public expense to such other prison as aforesaid.