Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act, 1845

Convicts who become insane, may be removed to central asylum.

Such persons, when certified to have become of sound mind, to be sent back to prison, or discharged, if entitled to discharge.

12. Whenever and as soon as the said central asylum shall be erected and fit for the reception of lunatics, it shall be lawful for the said lord lieutenant, if he shall so think fit, to direct, by warrant under his hand, that any person who may be under any sentence of imprisonment or transportation in any gaol or place of confinement, or in any district asylum, and in respect of whom it shall be certified by two physicians or surgeons, or a surgeon and physician, that such person is or has become insane, shall be removed to the said central asylum; and every such person so removed shall remain under confinement in said asylum so long as such person shall remain subject to be continued in custody, or until it shall be duly certified to the said lord lieutenant by two physicians or surgeons, or a surgeon and physician, that such person has become of sound mind, whereupon the said lord lieutenant is hereby authorized, if such his warrant to the keeper or other person having the care of any such asylum, directing that such person shall be remitted to the prison or other place of confinement from which he or she shall have been taken, or, if such person shall be entitled to his or her discharge, to direct the discharge accordingly.