Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1821

Lord lieutenant may direct money to be advanced out of the consolidated fund for establishing such asylums;

4.[1] It shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant, by and with the advice of his Majesty’s privy council in Ireland, to order and direct that any sum or sums of money shall be advanced and issued and paid out of the growing produce of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom arising in Ireland, to such person or persons as shall be named in any such order of council, or into the Bank of Ireland in the names of any such person or persons, to be paid and applied for the purpose of erecting and establishing any such asylum for the lunatic poor in any such district in Ireland, in such sums and at such times, and in such manner and proportions, and under such rules, regulations, terms, and conditions, and to annex such penalties for breach of such rules, regulations, terms, and conditions, as to such lord lieutenant and privy council shall seem best suited for promoting the beneficial purposes of this Act; . . .

[1 So much of this section as is inconsistent with part I. of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 27, (Public Works Loans, Ireland) is repealed by s. 10 of that Act.]