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Power to detain lunatics in district lunatic asylums and to retake them.
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4. The board of governors, or the resident medical superintendent of any district lunatic asylum, or the medical officer acting for him in his absence as snperintendent of such district lunatic asylum, who shall receive a lunatic into such district lunatic asylum in accordance with the rules and regulations made by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland with respect to such district asylum and then in force, and the officers and servants of such district lunatic asylum, shall respectively have power and authority to take charge of receive and detain such patient until he shall die, or be removed or discharged by due authority, and in case of the escape at any time or times of such patient to retake him at any time within fourteen days after such escape, and again to detain him as aforesaid.
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In every writ indictment information action and other proceeding which may be preferred or brought against any such board of governors, or any member or members thereof, or against any resident medical superintendent, or any medical officer acting for him in his absence, or any officer or servant of any district lunatic asylum, for admitting taking charge of receiving detaining confining or retaking as aforesaid any person as a lunatic, the board or person complained of may plead that such patient was admitted into such district lunatic asylum pursuant to the provisions of the rules or regulations aforesaid; and the fact of such admission shall, as respect such board or person respectively, be a justification for admitting taking charge of receiving detaining confining or retaking such lunatic or alleged lunatic.
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