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Transfer of lunatics from asylums to workhouses.
1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 33.
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9. The guardians of any poor law union in Ireland may, with the consent of the Local Government Board and the inspectors of lunatics, and subject to such regulations as they shall respectively prescribe, receive into the workhouse of such union any chronic lunatic, not being dangerous, who may have been received into a district lunatic asylum, and selected by the resident medical superintendent thereof and certified by him to be fit and proper so to be removed, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the said guardians and the board of governors of any such asylum, and thereupon every such lunatic, so long as he shall remain in such workhouse, shall continue a patient on the books of the asylum for and in respect of all the provisions of the Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1821, and the Acts amending the same, so far as they relate to lunatics and insane persons received into district lunatic asylums; and any expenses incurred by the board of governors in respect of such lunatic in such workhouse shall be deemed part of the expenses of such district lunatic asylum, and shall be paid by the governors out of the moneys applicable to the payment of such expenses.
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