Walking to Prison Compelled Act 1852 No 31a (NSW)

2546 Nos. 31 & 32. 16'’ VIC. 1852.

PoUticcd Disqiialification o f Folice.

No. XXXI.

Walking to All Act to niako it coiiipulsory on persons under

P rison compelled. ‘

committal to prison to proceed thither on

foot when required. [21s ̂December, 1852.]

Preamble.	\ \ j f HEREAS it is becoming- a practice for able-bodied prisoners
V V under committal to places of imprisonment contumaciously to
refuse to proceed thither on foot by means whereof considerable incon­ venience and delay in tlreir removal has been occasioned and at times the public has been put to the expense of providing a conveyance for such contumacious pm-sons And Avhereas it is expedient that such ])ractiec should lx- checked Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :—

Persona duly sen- I f any pei'son wlio shall have been duly sentenced to bo com-

Inmod to gnoUn'd tcd to any gaol house of correction or lock-up by the order of any

refusing or dcinying Competent Court 01* M agistrate shall Avhen thereunto required by the foot\Xcn''so required constablc Of auv of tlic coustablcs 01’ otliei’ persons charged w ith the may be kept in dutv of coiivoviiig him to 01’ towards such gaol house of correction or

&e.	lock-up reiuse to proceed th ither on loot or make any aiiected delays in proceeding thereto it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace upon the oath of any such constable or other person to make a summary order directing tha t the prisoner so refusing to walk or making such affected delays shall be kept in solitary confinement on bread and ivater alone in such gaol house of correction or lock-up as aforesaid for any period not exceeding fourteen days for each such
Proviso ns to thulr	offence and every such person shall be so kept accordingly Provided
beincj dealt witli
under original	tha t such order shall not be deemed to prevent such person from being
coiiiniittal and
reserving powers	brought liefore any .Justice or Court to be dealt w ith under his original
now possessed by	cominittiil and th a t the powers hereby conferred shall not be deemed
constables.	to abridge the powers nov/ possessed by constables or other persons charged Avith the conveyance of prisoners from using such force as they lawfully may use for compelling such prisoners to proceed on foot to the place of confinement to A\diich they have been so committed.