Naval Discipline Act 1957 (repealed)

107 Duties of governors of civil prisons, etc. F1 U.K.

(1) It shall be the duty of the governor of a civil prison—

(a) to receive and confine until discharged in due course of law any person sentenced under this Act to imprisonment who is committed, transferred or returned to that prison in pursuance of a committal order or an order made under section eighty-four of this Act, and to deliver over or discharge any such person in accordance with any order under this Act or on the expiration of his sentence;

(b) to receive and confine for a period not exceeding seven days any person who is for the time being in naval custody upon delivery of an order in that behalf purporting to be signed by a flag officer or by the officer in command of any of Her Majesty’s ships or naval establishments, or upon production of a committal order or an order made under the said section eighty-four relating to that person;

(c) to receive any person duly committed to that prison by a court of summary jurisdiction under this Part of this Act as being illegally absent from any of Her Majesty’s naval forces, and to detain him until, in accordance with the directions of the court, he is delivered into naval custody.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section, except paragraph (a), shall apply to the person having charge of any police station or other place (not being a prison) provided for the confinement of persons in custody as it applies to the governor of a prison.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 107 as read with s. 126 extended by Guyana Independence Act 1966 (c. 14), s. 5(2)

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1 Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions