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Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953

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15Place of confinement of prisoners.N.I.

(1)A prisoner sentenced by any court or committed to a prison on remand or pending trial or otherwise may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other enactment, be lawfully confined in any prison provided or maintained by the [F1Department].

(2)Prisoners shall be committed to such prison as the [F1Department] may from time to time direct; and may during the term of their imprisonment be removed, by direction of the [F1Department], from the prison in which they are confined to any other prison.

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