Places of Detention Act 1886 No 24a (NSW)

No. XIX.

An Ac t to amen d tlic I^a w relating to the d eten-

tion and transfer of Convicted Offenders.	“
\Sth October, 1886.]

“O E it enacted 1)y tlie Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and 'witb ,D the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Earliament assendded and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘ Places of Detention Act short title.

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2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act under Amendment of law

which any jierson is liable to be committed or imprisoned with place of detention it shall be laAvful for the Court or the -Tusticcs adjudicatiug under such Act to commit such person to such prison gaol or place of detention as such Court or Justices may a})point.

3.   I t shall be laAvful for tlic Minister charged Avith the adminis- Â to iMiiUcr of

tration of this Act on the recomnrendation of the Comptroller-General of Prisons to authorize the transfer of any prisoner under sentfaicc of liard labour on the roads or public Avorks of the Colony or im])rison- ment for any terniAvith or Avithont hard lahour or of penal servitude from any gaol prison or place of detc'ution to any other gaol or prison or place of detention appointed or lu’oclaimed as such.

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