Prisoners Employment Act 1887 (WA)

51 VICTORIIE. No. 5

The Prisoners Employment Act, 1887

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QIIINQIYAG IMO PRIMO

VICTORIA.- GINS

No. 5

An Act to amend the Law in respect of the employment

of Prisoners sentenced to hard labour.

[Assented to 4th August, 1887.

the Legislative Council thereof :- B E it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of

Preamble

Short title 1. That this Act may be cited as ' The Prisoners Employment

Act, 1887.'

Repeal of sec. 21

of 12th Vie., 2. That the twenty-fourth section of Ordinance No. 7 of the 12th

No. 7

Victoria: be and is hereby repealed, and such repeal shall take effect at

the time of the commencement of this Act.

Certain prisoners

may be set to

3. That any male prisoner sentenced to penal servitude or to im- alternative of a fine, may be ordered by the Inspector of Prisons or a Resident Magistrate to be set to work, and may be set to work on the roads or any public work beyond the precincts of the said prison. Any such prisoner so ordered to be set to work as aforesaid who, whether in charge of any gaoler or not, shall abscond, whether on the way from the prison to the place of work, or at the place of work, or on the way from the place of work to the prison, shall be liable to the penalties of an escape. Any such prisoner so set to work as aforesaid, either alone or with any other prisoner or prisoners, may by the further order of such Inspector or of a Resident Magistrate be kept at such work in chains or otherwise secured as may be deemed expedient.

work outside

prisonment with hard labour for any felony or misdemeanour for which

prison

he is legally liable to be sentenced to such imprisonment without the

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.