Central Criminal Court (Prisons) Act 1881
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Central Criminal Court (Prisons) Act, 1881
(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 64.
An Act to remove certain doubts as to the application of section twenty-four of the Prison Act, 1877, and enactments amending the same, to the Central Criminal Court district.
[27th August 1881]
Whereas by section twenty-four of the Prison Act, 1877, it is enacted as follows:
‘The Secretary of State may from time to time by any general or special rule appoint in any county a convenient prison or prisons in which prisoners are to be confined before and during trial, or at either of such times, and any prisoner who might, if this Act had not passed, have been lawfully confined in a prison situate within the area of such county may be lawfully confined in any prison or prisons so appointed: Moreover, the Secretary of State may by any general or special rule from time to time appoint any convenient prison or prisons in any adjoining county to which prisoners may be committed for trial, safe custody, or otherwise, and any prisoners may be committed to such prison accordingly’:
And whereas by section three of the Spring Assizes Act, 1879, the Prison Act, 1877, was amended so far as regards the carrying of a judgment into execution in any prison:
And whereas the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the said section of the Prison Act, 1877, has made divers rules relating among others to persons in the Central Criminal Court district, and such rules have been laid before Parliament:
And whereas doubts have arisen with respect to the application of the said sections in the case of persons committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, and consequently as to the validity of the said rules, so far as relating to such persons, and it is expedient to remove such doubts:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Central Criminal Court (Prisons) Act, 1881, and the Central Criminal Court Act, 1834, and this Act may be cited together as the Central Criminal Court Acts, 1834 and 1881.
2 Application to Central Criminal Court district of rules under s. 24. of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21.
(1)2. (1.) Any rule made by the Secretary of State either before or after the passing of this Act in pursuance of section twenty-four of the Prison Act, 1877, and of any enactment amending the Prison Act, 1877, shall, notwithstanding anything in the Central Criminal Court Act, 1834, apply, save as otherwise therein mentioned, to prisoners committed for trial or before or during trial at the Central Criminal Court.
(2) (2.) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, and any other enactment referring to the gaol of Newgate, shall, save as may be prescribed, be construed to include, and to have heretofore included, the prison or prisons for the time being appointed by a rule of the Secretary of State made in pursuance of the ...
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