Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act 1845

JurisdictionIreland
Citation1845 c. 107
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Octavo & Nono. An Act for the Establishment of a Central Asylum for Insane Persons charged with Offences inIreland ; and to amend the Act relating to the Prevention of Offences by Insane Persons, and the Acts respecting Asylums for the Insane Poor, in Ireland ; and for appropriating the Lunatic Asylum in the City of Cork to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum.

(8 & 9 Vict.) C A P. CVII.

[8th August 1845]

'WHEREAS it is expedient that One Central Asylum in or near the City ofDublin should be provided for the Custody and Care of Criminal Lunatics:' Be it enacted by the Queen'smost Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Commissioners of Public Works inIreland for the Time being shall be Trustees for the Purpose of purchasing or providing, as herein-after mentioned, any Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments that may be necessary for the said Central Asylum, and the Site thereof, and the Premises to be occupied therewith, and for erecting thereon suitable Buildings, and for repairing, enlarging, improving, upholding, and furnishing the same from Time to Time.

S-II Commissioners of Public Works to be a Corporation for the Purposes of this Act.

II Commissioners of Public Works to be a Corporation for the Purposes of this Act.

II. And be it enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act the said Commissioners of Public Works inIreland for the Time being, and their Successors, shall be a Corporation, by the Name or Style of ‘The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland ,’ and by that Name, for the Purposes of this Act, shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, to be by them made and from Time to Time altered as they shall think fit, and shall and may sue and be sued, plead or be impleaded, in all Courts, and before all Justices and others, and in that Capacity shall be deemed Promoters of the Undertaking authorized to be executed by this Act.

S-III Power to Commissioners of Public Works to purchase or rent Buildings, Lands, &c. which may be required for such Central Asylum.

III Power to Commissioners of Public Works to purchase or rent Buildings, Lands, &c. which may be required for such Central Asylum.

III. And be it enacted, That in order to enable the said Commissioners of Public Works inIreland to purchase and provide the Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments which may be required for the said Central Asylum and the Site thereof, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, with the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to contract and agree with any Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Corporate, for the Purchase or renting of any Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments required for such Central Asylum, or the Site thereof, and the Premises to be occupied therewith, and also for the Purchase of any subsisting Leases, Terms, Estates, or Interests therein or Charges thereon; and the Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so contracted and agreed for shall be conveyed, assigned, or demised to or in trust for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in such Manner and Form as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct.

S-IV Consolidation of this Act with Lands Clauses Consolidation Act.

IV Consolidation of this Act with Lands Clauses Consolidation Act.

IV. And be it enacted, That in order to enable the said Commissioners of Public Works to purchase and provide the said Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, the ‘Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,’ shall be incorporated with this Act, except the Clauses with respect to the Purchase and taking of Lands otherwise than by Agreement: Provided always, that all Things by the said Act required or authorized to be done by the Promoters of the Undertaking may be done by any Two of the Commissioners of Public Works inIreland , subject to the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in the Cases provided by this Act.

S-V Commissioners of Public Works to obtain Surveys, Plans, and Specifications, and submit same to the Treasury.

V Commissioners of Public Works to obtain Surveys, Plans, and Specifications, and submit same to the Treasury.

V. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Public Works, if they shall be so directed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to employ any competent Surveyor or Architect to make a Survey and Estimate of the said proposed Work, and to prepare such Plan, Section, or Specification thereof as may be necessary, and send the same to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for their Approval; and if the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall think fit to authorize the Work in any such Plan, Section, or Specification, or any Modification thereof which they may think proper, to be undertaken, they shall, by Warrant under their Hands, direct the said Commissioners of Public Works to execute such Work, at and for an Amount not exceeding a Sum to be specified in such Warrant; and the said Commissioners of Public Works shall upon Receipt of such Warrant forthwith cause the Construction of the Work mentioned therein to be proceeded with.

S-VI Commissioners of Public Works to lay Accounts before the Commissioners of the Treasury.

VI Commissioners of Public Works to lay Accounts before the Commissioners of the Treasury.

VI. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners of Public Works shall cause Accounts in Writing of the several Sums received by them as such Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act, and the Sums expended by them for such Purposes, and the Mode of such Expenditure, to be made up to the Thirty-first Day ofDecember in each Year, or to such Period as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct; and the said Commissioners shall, as often as they shall be required so to do by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, transmit to the said Commissioners of the Treasury the said Accounts; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to give such Directions as they shall think proper, defining the Duties of the said Commissioners of Public Works in the Execution of this Act; and the said Commissioners of Public Works shall observe all such Directions as aforesaid which shall from Time to Time be signified to them by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

S-VII Proceedings in Actions by and against the Commissioners of Public Works.

VII Proceedings in Actions by and against the Commissioners of Public Works.

VII. And be it enacted, That the several Enactments contained in an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty KingWilliam the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland, which affect or relate to any Action or Suit to be commenced against the Commissioners for the Execution of the last-recited Act, or their Secretary, or any Person or Persons, for any thing done by virtue of or in pursuance of the last-recited Act, or in any Proceedings in any such Action or Suit, or any Limitation of Time for the Commencement thereof, or any Costs thereof, or any Evidence to be given therein, or any Notice of Action or Suit, or Satisfaction, or Tender thereof, or any Action or Suit to be commenced by the said Commissioners, or any Proceedings therein, or the said Commissioners suing or being sued in the Name of their Secretary, or any Abatement or Discontinuance of any such Action or Suit, or to the Court in which, or to the Terms or Conditions on which, any such Action or Suit shall be brought against the said Commissioners, collectively or individually, or their Secretary, shall be held to apply to and extend to any Action or Suit to be commenced against the Commissioners of Public Works inIreland , or their Secretary, or any Person or Persons, for any thing done by virtue of or in pursuance of this Act, or to any Proceedings in any such Action or Suit, or to the Limitation of Time for the commencing thereof, or to any Costs thereof, or to any Notice of any such Action or Suit, or to any Evidence to be given therein, or to any Action or Suit to be commenced by the said Commissioners of Public Works in the Execution of this Act, or on account of or in pursuance of this Act, or to any Proceedings in any such Action or Suit, or to the said Commissioners suing or being sued in the Name of their Secretary for the Time being, or to any Abatement or Discontinuance of any such Action or Suit, or to the Court in which, or to the Terms or Conditions on which, any such Action or Suit shall be brought against the said Commissioners of Public Works collectively or individually, or against their Secretary.

S-VIII When Central Asylum established, the Lord Lieutenant empowered to order the Removal of Criminal Lunatics to such Asylum.

VIII When Central Asylum established, the Lord Lieutenant empowered to order the Removal of Criminal Lunatics to such Asylum.

VIII. 'And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, intituled An Act to make more effectual Provision for the Establishment of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor, and for the Custody of Insane Persons charged with Offences, in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland for the Time being to give such Order for the safe Custody and Care of Criminals found insane as in the said Act mentioned, during the Pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, in such Place and in such Manner as should seem fit; and it is by said Act further provided and enacted, that whenever...

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