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Private patients not found lunatic by inquisition to be received only under order of judicial authority.
Forms 1, 2, 8.
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4.—(1) Subject to the exceptions in this Act mentioned, a person not being a pauper or a lunatic so found by inquisition, shall not be received and detained as a lunatic in an institution for lunatics, or as a single patient, unless under a reception order made by the judicial authority herein-after mentioned. A relative of the person applying for an order under this section or of the lunatic, or of the husband or wife of the lunatic, shall not be capable of making such order.
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