Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, ch. 28).

Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, ch. 28). 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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    faction of the judge in lunacy that he is a defective within the meaning of this Act in like manner as they apply to the manage- ment and administration of the estate of a person who is through mental infirmity arising from disease or age incapable of managing his affairs. 65. -(l) All the powers and duties of the Commissioners in Lunacy under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, shall, as from the commencement of this Act, he transferred to the Board, and His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that anything which under those Acts is required or authorised to he done by, to, or in respect of, any one or more Commissioners in Lunacy or any officer of those Commissioners shall, he done by, to, or in respect of, one or more Commissioners under this Act, or the corresponding officer of the Board : Provided that nothing in such Order in Council shall authorise anything by those Acts required to be done l3y two Commissioners, one a medical practitioner and the other a barrister, to be done otherwise than by two commissioners, one a medical and the other a legal commissioner, hut the order may provide that, in the case of the temporary illness or disability of a legal or medical commissioner, the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State (as the case may be) may appoint a person qualified to be a legal or medical commissioner to act as substitute so long as the illness or disability continues. (2) As from the commencement of this Act, the existing staff of the Commissioners in Lunacy shall be transferred to and become members of the staff of the Board, but without prejudice to the rights of any existing members of such staff. (3) As from the commencement of this Act, sections one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty-one of the Lunacy Act, 1890, shall be repealed. 66. The Secretary of State may l)y order authorise the council of a county or county borough acting as a local authority under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, to appoint the committee for the care of the mentally defective constituted under this Act to be the visiting committee or asylums com- mittee for the purposes of those Acts, anything in those Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. 67. —(1) The Idiots Act. 1886, is hereby repealed. (2) Any hospital, institution, or licensed house which at the commencement of this Act is registered under the Idiots Act, 39 A.D. 1913. Transfer to Board of powers and duties of Lunacy Commis- sioners. Power to authorise committee for care of mentally defective to act as asylums committee. Repeal of Idiots Act, 1886.