Central Criminal Court (Prisons) Act 1881
1881 c. 64 44_and_45_Vict
An Act to remove certain doubts as to the application of section twenty-four of the Prison Act 1877 and enactments amending the same, to the Central Criminal Court district.
[27th August 1881]
1. Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Central Criminal Court (Prisons) Act 1881, . . .
2. Application to Central Criminal Court district of rules under s. 24 of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21.
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(5) Where judgment of death is passed [ before the Crown Court sitting at the Central Criminal Court or elsewhere in Greater London] upon a person convicted of any offence, the judgment may be carried into execution in any prison in the Central Criminal Court district or in the county, if any, where the offence was committed or is supposed to have been committed, which the justice or judge of the said court passing sentence or any other justice or judge of the court subsequently may order, and if no order is made, then in the prison in which the convict is for the time being confined; and such sheriff as is ordered by any justice or judge of the said court, or if no order is made, the sheriff of the county in which the offence was committed or is supposed to have been committed, or if the offence was committed or is supposed to have been committed on the high seas, or if the county in which the offence was committed does not clearly appear, the sheriff of [ Greater London], shall be charged with the execution of the judgment; and the sheriff charged with the execution of the judgment shall for that purpose have the same jurisdiction and powers and be subject to the same duties in the prison in which the judgment is to be carried into execution, although such prison is not situate within his county, as he has by law with respect to the common gaol of his county or would have had if the Prison Act 1865 and the Prison Act 1877 had not passed.The coroner whose duty it is to hold an inquest on the bodies of persons dying in any prison, shall hold an inquest in accordance with the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 on the body of any convict executed in that prison.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) The Secretary of State may from time to time, by any general or special rule made in pursuance of the Prison Act 1877, provide for any matter directed by this Act to be prescribed, and generally for carrying this Act into effect. 3. Definitions.
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The expression
“prescribed” means prescribed by a rule made by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the
Prison Act 1877 as amended by this Act.
Enactments referred to.
Session and Chapter. | Title. |
4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 36. | An Act for establishing a new Court for the trial of Offences committed in the Metropolis, and parts adjoining. |
19 & 20 Vict. c. 16. | An act to empower the Court of Queen’s Bench to order certain offenders to be tried at the Central Criminal court. |
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