[44 Vict.] Prolection of Person and Property [Ireland).
BILL
[AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE]
POB
The better Protection of Person and Property in Ireland. ^
E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, hy 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, as follows :
5 1. (1.) Any person who is declared by warrant of the Lord Lieu-
tenant to be reasonably suspected of having either before or after tenant to
the passing of this Act been guilty as principal or accessory of high arrest and
treason, treason-felony, or treasonable practices, wherever com- '
mitted, or of any crime punishable by law committed in a pre-
10 scribed district, being an act of violence or intimidation, or the
inciting to an act of violence or intimidation, and tending to
interfere with or disturb the maintenance of law and order, may
be arrested in any part of L'eland and legally detained during the
continuance of this Act in such prison in L'eland as may from time
15 to time be directed by the Lord Lieutenant, without bail or main-
prize ; and shall not be discharged or tried by any court without
the direction of the Lord Lieutenant; and every such warrant
shall be conclusive evidence of all matters therein contained, and
of the jurisdiction to issue and execute such warrant, and of the
20 legality of the arrest and detention of the person mentioned in such
warrant.
(2.) Any person detained in pursuance of a warrant under this
Act shall be treated as a person accused of crime and not as a
convicted prisoner, subject to the special rules for the time being
25 in force with respect to prisoners awaiting trial: Provided that the
Lord Lieutenant may from time to time, if he shall think fit, make
regulations modifying such special rules so far as they relate to
persons detained under this Act. Any regulations made by the
Lord Lieutenant under this provision shall be laid before both
30 Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the making of the
same, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen
days after the next meeting of Parliament.
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