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Agreement for the provision of prisoner escort services.
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5.— (1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance and the approval of the Government, enter into an agreement with another person (in this Act referred to as a “contractor”) for the provision by that person of prisoner escort services.
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(2) An agreement to which subsection (1) applies shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, shall determine.
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(3) The Minister may terminate an agreement under subsection (1) if the contractor fails to comply with any of the terms or conditions of the agreement concerned or contravenes a provision of this Act.
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(4) In this section “prisoner escort services” means services that before the passing of this Act were normally provided by members of the Garda Síochána or prison officers in relation to—
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(a) the transfer of prisoners from any place (including a prison) to a prison or from a prison to any place (including a prison),
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(b) the detention in custody of prisoners in a prison in the course of their transfer from one prison to another prison,
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(c) the detention in custody of prisoners in a place other than a prison, or
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(d) the production of a prisoner to a court.
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