Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations.

  • Great Britain. Scottish Office.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    {d) Where iu these Regulations a designated officer is referred to and a Parish Council or a School Board do not appoint a special officer, the term “designated officer” shall be held to mean the Inspector of Poor or the Clerk of the School Board. 2. —{a) Weekly Rates of Maintenance (hereinafter referred to as the approved weekly rates) for lunatics in asylums and in private dwellings and for defectives in certified institutions or under guardianship shall be from time to time fixed subject to the approval of the Board. Such rates shall be fixed so as to cover ordinary subsistence, medicines, and all other appropriate charges, as approved by the Board, in relation to the proper care and maintenance of lunatics or defectives including, in the case of asylums or certified institutions, provision for the cost of the staff and other necessary expenses of siich asylums or certified institutions but shall not include the expenses, as defined in the Lunacy Acts and the Act, of providing an asylum or a certified institution. These last mentioned expenses shall be separately ascertained and approved for the purpose of the Lunacy Acts and the Act, and are hereinafter referred to as providing expenses. (6) The annual expense incurred in maintaining a lunatic or detective shall be the cost of maintaining him at the approved weekly rate tor the time being in force, during the period in any year ending 15th May (hereinafter referred to as the financial year) for which he has actually been under care or treatment in an asylum or in a private dwelling or as the case may be in a certified institution or under guardianship, together with such other expenses (hereinafter referred to as extra expenses) in respect of certification, judicial order (if any), conveyance, &c., or for clothing, &c., as may have been incurred on his account during the year. (c) On or before the 1st May annually each District Board or Parish Council or School Board as the case may be shall consider the approved weekly rates in force for pauper lunatics or defec- tives in respect of whom they are primarily liable to make provi- sion, with a view to the revision of such rates, if necessary, for the ensuing financial year, and any proposed change shall be submitted not later than 1st May for the approval of the Board. {d) In this regulation the expression “Asylum” includes a District or other asylum in which pauper lunatics are maintained and also the lunatic wards of a poorhouse. 3. —(a) ,'On or before the 15th May annually each Distri'o.t Board or Parish Council or School Board shall frame, in such form as the Board may, from time to time direct, a provisional estimate of the amount required in the ensuing financial year to defray the annual expense, as before defined, of maintaining the pauper lunatics or defectives for whom they are primarily responsible either as being (in the case of a District Board) the authority having the actual care of such lunatics or defectives or as being tbe authority by whom a contract has been made with asylums or certified institutions not provided by a District Board or with private persons or guardians, and they shall also estimate the sums expected to be received during the year from relatives or otherwise or from Government Grants in aid of such maintenance. A 2 5276