Prison Service (Ireland) Act, 1883

Construction of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 49. s. 32.

1. For the purposes of the thirty-second section of the General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877, relating to the superannuation of prison officers, the term “prison service” means, as respects the period before the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, service in a particular prison, or in the prisons of the same grand jury or other prison authority, transferred to the General Prisons Board for Ireland; and as respects the period after the said first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, service in any such prison or in any other prison; and the said section shall be construed as if the term “prison service” had been so defined therein.