County Infirmaries (Ireland) Act, 1831

Powers vested by recited Acts in commissioners for building gaols, and in commissioners of lunatic asylums, shall be vested in the governors of county infirmaries and hospitals for certain purposes;

and provisions of such Acts as to valuation of premises shall apply to valuation of lands for infirmaries, &c.

1. All and every of the powers and provisions vested in the commissioners for building gaols in Ireland by the said recited Act of the fiftieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, and by the said recited Act of the seventh year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, and all the powers vested in the commissioners for the establishment of lunatic asylums in Ireland by the said recited Act of the first and second years of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Fourth,[1] shall be and are hereby vested in the governors of the several infirmaries and hospitals of the several counties and counties of cities and towns in Ireland, so far as the same relate to the holding the court, issuing warrants or precepts for juries, and to the valuation of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments on the site of which any infirmary or hospital shall or may have been or may be erected, regulated, or incorporated under and by virtue of any Act in force in Ireland, or which may be required for any addition to such infirmary or infirmaries or hospital or hospitals, or to the yards or grounds surrounding or adjoining the same; and all the provisions as to notices, proceedings, verdicts, judgments, conveyances, and inrolments, and all other matters relating to the valuation of premises in the said recited Acts mentioned, shall be held to apply to the valuation of lands, tenements, or hereditaments for the sites or additions of and to such infirmaries and hospitals; and such verdicts, judgments, and conveyances shall be binding and conclusive to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

APPENDIX.

[Enactments incorporated in 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 48.]


50 Geo. 3. c. 103.

An Act for repealing the several Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland; and for re-enacting such of the provisions thereof as have been found useful, with Amendments.[1] [20th June 1810.]

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[1 The enactments referred to will be found in the Appendix to this volume.]