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PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 12

Ejectment warrants in respect of official accommoda-

12.(1) Where any living accommodation is provided for a prison officer or his
family by virtue of his office, then, if he ceases to be a prison officer or
is suspended from office or dies, he, or, as the case may be, his family,
shall quit the accommodation when required to do so by notice of the Ministry.

(2) Where a prison officer or the family of a prison officer refuses or
neglects to quit the accommodation forty-eight hours after the giving of such
a notice as aforesaid, any resident magistrate, on proof made to him of the
facts authorising the giving of the notice and of the service of the notice
and of the neglect or refusal to comply therewith may by warrant direct the
under-sheriff for the county in which the accommodation is situated, within a
period specified in the warrant, to enter, by force if necessary, into the
accommodation and deliver possession of it to the Ministry or any person
appointed by the Ministry.

Rules for the management of prisons.

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