An Act to remove doubts as to the powers of the Secretary of State in relation to the altering, enlarging, rebuilding, and building of Prisons, and appropriating any Building for a Prison.
WHEREAS under the Prison Act, 1865, every prison authority had power to alter, enlarge, or rebuild any of its prisons, and to build other prisons in lieu of or in addition to any subsisting prisons, if the necessity so to do was shown, and the approval of the Secretary of State obtained, and the other conditions complied with, and doubts have arisen as to whether the Prison Act, 1877, enables the Secretary of State to exercise the said power, and it is expedient to remove such doubts Be it th...