15 & 16 Geo. 6
& 1 Eliz. 2
Short title, commencement and extent. 55.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Prison Act, 1952.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.
(3) Subsection (2) of section twenty-two, subsections (1), (3), (5) and (6) of section forty-eight and subsection (1) of section forty-nine of this Act and the Second Schedule and Part II of the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall extend to Scotland, and subsection (1) of the said section forty-nine as so extended shall apply to all persons unlawfully at large.
(4) Except as provided in the last preceding subsection or the Second Schedule to this Act, this Act shall not extend to Scotland.
(5) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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