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

Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, ch. 38). 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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    Duty of parents and of sciiool board aiid parish council to provide for defectives. 6 Edw. 7. c. 10. H Edw. 7. c. 63. [Ch. 38.] Mental Deficiency and Lunacy [3 & 4 Geo. 5.] {Scotland) Act, 1913. incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruc- tion in ordinary schools; {d) Moral imbeciles; that is to say, persons who from an early age display some permanent mental defect coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punishment has had little or no deterrent elfect. 2.—(1) It shall be the duty of the parents or guardians of children between five and sixteen years of age who are defectives within the meaning of this Act, to make provision for the education or for the proper care and supervision of such children as the case may require, and, where the parent or guardian of a defective child is, by reason of the attendant expense, unable to make suitable provision as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the school board (except as herein-after in this section provided) to make such provision either in virtue of their powers under the Education of Defective Children (Scotland) Act, 1906, as read with the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, or in terms of this Act as the local authority concerned. (2) It shall be the duty of the school board to make arrangements, as the local authority concerned under this Act, and subject to the approval of the Scotch Education Department— {a) for ascertaining what children within their area are defectives within the meaning of this Act; {b) for ascertaining which of such children are incapable by reason of mental defect of receiving benefit or further benefit from instruction in special schools or classes, or of receiving such instruction without detriment to the interests of the other children and for notifying to the parish council and the General Board of Control herein-after constituted (in this Act referred to as the Board) the names and addresses of such children. (3) In the case of doubt as to whether a child is or is not capable of receiving such benefit as aforesaid, or whether the retention of a child in a special school or class would be detrimental to the interests of the other children, the matter shall be determined by the Scotch Education Department. (I) When the name and address of a child have been notified to the parish council under this section the duty of the school l)oard to make suitable provision in regard to such child