Penal Servitude Act 1857

III Provisions of Acts concerning transported Offenders to apply to Offenders under Sentence of Penal Servitude.

And whereas the Provisions applicable to Persons under Sentence of Transportation extend to Persons under Sentence of Penal Servitude conveyed to Parts beyond the Seas in those Cases only where they are conveyed to and kept in Places of Confinement appointed under the said Act or the Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-four, and it is expedient to extend the said Provisions to other Cases :

Any Person now or hereafter under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude may, during the Term of the Sentence or Order, be conveyed to any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation may be conveyed, or to any Place or Places beyond the Seas which may be hereafter appointed as herein mentioned ; and all Acts and Provisions now applicable to and for the Removal and Transportation of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation to and from any Places beyond the Seas, and concerning their Custody, Management, and Control, and the Property in their Services, and the Punishment of such Offenders if at large without lawful Cause before the Expiration of their Sentence, and all other Provisions now applicable to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall apply to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude, as if they were Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation.