Prisons Act 1848
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(11 & 12 Vict.) C A P. XXXIX.
[14th August 1848]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled , the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Boroughs in which there shall be a separate Court of Sessions of the Peace are authorized and empowered by their Councils to take up and borrow Money for building or rebuilding, repairing or enlarging any Prison, Court House, or other necessary Buildings to be used therewith, and to secure the Repayment of such Money as therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient that greater Facilities should be given to such Councils for raising and from Time to Time repaying Monies levied for the Purposes aforesaid: And whereas ‘The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847,’ contains certain Clauses with respect to Mortgages executed by the Commissioners, and it would be attended with public Advantage if such Clauses were made applicable to Mortgages and Bonds executed by Councils of Boroughs under the Powers of the said Act relating to Prisons:' Be it 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 Parliamentassembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the several Clauses in the said ‘Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847,’ contained with respect to Mortgages executed by the Commissioners, save as to such of the Provisions thereof as are or may be inconsistent with the Provisions of this Act, and save as herein-after excepted, shall be incorporated with and form Part of this Act, and shall be applicable to all Mortgages or Bonds which may at any Time have been or shall be granted under the Common Seal of any Borough by virtue of the Provisions of the said recited Act ‘to amend the Laws concerning Prisons.’
II Matters to be done by the Commissioners and their Clerk may be done by Council and Town Clerk.
II. And be it enacted, That every thing which by ‘The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847,’ is provided or required to be done, and all Powers which may be exercised by the Commissioners respecting any Mortgages of Rates or other Property, shall and may be lawfully done by the Council of any such Borough as aforesaid, with respect to Monies raised...
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