Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers.
- Danby Palmer Fry
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
418/508 (page 390)
![But a justice cannot now in any case act upon his own knowledge only for the purpose of making a reception order. He cannot proceed except upon the prescribed notice, or where an information has been laid. A justice is forbidden, after the 1st of May next, to sign an order for the re^^-eption of any person as a pauper lunatic into an institution for lunatics, or workhouse, unless he is satisfied that the alleged pauper is either in receipt of relief, or in such circumstances as to require relief for his proper care. If it appears by the order that the justice is so satisfied, the lunatic is to be deemed to be a pauper chargeable to the union, county, or borough properly liable for his relief. A person who is visited by a medical officer of the union at the expense of the union is, for the purposes of this enactment, to be deemed to be in receipt of relief, (Section 18.) Requirements of Beception Orders and Medical Certificates. Some resti'ictions have been placed on the making of rece])tioii orders and the granting of medical certificates. Thus section 29 of the recent Act provides that a recep- tion order shall not be made unless the medical prac- titioner who signs the medical certificate, or where two certificates are required, each medical practitioner who signs a certificate, has personally examined the alleged lunatic, in such cases as those with which guardians or their officers have to deal, not more than seven clear days before the date of the order. Moreover, where two medical certificates are required, a reception order is not to be made unless each medical practitioner signing a certificate has examined the alleged lunatic separately fiom the other. If an order or certificate for the reception of a lunatic is, after such reception, found to be in any respect incor- rect or defective, the order or certificate may, within 14 days next after such reception, be amended by the person who signed the same. No amendment, however, is to be allowed unless it receives the sanction of the Commissioners in Lunacy, or of one of them. Every order and certificate so amended will take effect as if the amendment had been contained therein when it was signed. (Section 34.) Where a reception order has been made, and the exe- cution of the order has been suspended, or the lunatic has been temporarily taken to a workhouse, he may be received in the institution for lunatics named in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21293454_0418.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
