Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871

Power to exempt small properties.

113.[1] Where it is made to appear to the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid that the net amount or net estimated value of the property of a lunatic does not exceed the sum of seven hundred pounds sterling in respect of the corpus thereof, or the sum of fifty pounds sterling per annum in respect of the income thereof, he may order (if he shall think fit) that no fee shall be taken or paid, or per-centage be levied or paid, in relation to the proceedings in the matter or the property, as from the date of the order or such other time as he shall direct, during the continuance of the lunacy or until further order.

[1 This jurisdiction may be exercised by a Civil Bill Court, 43 & 44 Vict. c. 39. s. 2.]