Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, ch. 38).

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[1913]
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Credit: Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, ch. 38). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Scotla/nd) Act, 1913. CHAPTER 38. An Act to make better and further provision for the care of Mentally Defective Persons and to amend the Law relating to Lunacy in Scotland. [15th August 1913.] Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parhament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— Part I. Power and Manner of dealing with Defectives. Powers of dealing loith Defectives. 1. The following classes of persons who are mentally defective shall he deemed to he defectives within the meaning of this Act:— (a) Idiots; that is to say, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age as to be unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers; (6) Imbeciles; that is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defec- tiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their afPairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so; (c) Eeehle-minded persons; that is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to imbecility, yet so pronounced that they require care, supervision, and control for their own protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, that they by A3 1 A.D.1913. Definition of defectives.