Prison Act 1884

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1884 c. 51
Year1884


Prison Act, 1884

(47 & 48 Vict.) CHAPTER 51.

An Act to remove doubts as to the powers of the Secretary of State in relation to the altering, enlarging, rebuilding, and building of Prisons, and appropriating any Building for a Prison.

[7th August 1884]

W HEREAS under the Prison Act, 1865, every prison authority had power to alter, enlarge, or rebuild any of its prisons, and to build other prisons in lieu of or in addition to any subsisting prisons, if the necessity so to do was shown, and the approval of the Secretary of State obtained, and the other conditions complied with, and doubts have arisen as to whether the Prison Act, 1877, enables the Secretary of State to exercise the said power, 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:

S-1 Construction and short title.

1 Construction and short title.

1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Prison Act, 1877.

This Act may be cited as thePrison Act, 1884, and this Act and the Prison Act, 1877, may be cited together as the Prison Acts, 1877 and 1884.

S-2 Explanation as to power of Secretary of State to enlarge and build new prisons.

2 Explanation as to power of Secretary of State to enlarge and build new prisons.

(1)2.—(1.) The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, may alter, enlarge, or rebuild any prison, and build any new prison which appears to be necessary, and for that purpose shall have all the powers conferred by the Prison Act, 1865, for the like purpose on a prison authority who had obtained the sanction of a Secretary of State.

(2) (2.) The Secretary of State, in lieu of building, may by such declaration as herein-after mentioned, appropriate as a prison any suitable building or part of a building vested in him or under his control, including any prison for convicts under the superintendence of the directors of convict prisons which is situate in England.

(3) (3.) The Secretary of State may from time to time declare that any building or part of a building built for or appropriated as a prison in pursuance of this Act shall, and the same accordingly shall, be a prison under the Prison Act, 1865, and the Prison Act, 1877, and be within the jurisdiction of the Prison Commissioners, and be a prison for the county and prison jurisdiction named...

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