Version Superseded: 16/07/2008
Point in time view as at 01/01/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, Section 19.
(1)A justice of the peace may at any time visit any prison and may examine the condition of the prison and of the prisoners and enter in a visitors' book, to be kept by the governor of the prison, any observations on the condition of the prison or on any other matter connected with the prison.
(2)Nothing in the foregoing sub-section shall authorise a justice of the peace to communicate with any prisoner except on the subject of his treatment in the prison, or to visit any prisoner under sentence of death.
(3)The governor of every prison shall bring any entry in the visitors' book to the attention of the[F1 independent monitoring board] at their next visit.
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