General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Superannuation of medical officers. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 51.

33. The provisions of the Prison Officers Superannuation (Ireland) Act, 1873, which relate to medical officers of prisons, shall, in the case of any medical officer who shall be also surgeon to any county infirmary, and who shall have given his attendance and professional assistance, whether with or without remuneration, to the prisoners or others in any prison up to the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and whose further attendance or assistance at such prison shall at any time thereafter cease to be required, apply to such medical officer on the occasion of his retiring from the office of surgeon of the county infirmary, as fully as the same would have applied if such medical officer had continued to give his attendance and professional assistance at such prison up to the time of his retirement from the office of surgeon of the county infirmary.