Prisons (Scotland) Act 1877

Arrangement and Arbitration

68Power of Secretary of State and prison authority to compromise and refer to arbitration

The Secretary .of State on the one hand (with the assent of the Treasury so far as any public moneys are concerned), and a prison authority on the other, may, with a view to carry into effect the purposes of this Act, compromise any matter, or settle any difference, or refer to a single arbiter any matter or difference.