Habitual Drunkards Act 1879

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Permission that person detained may reside out of retreat.

19. A Justice of the Peace, at the request of a licensee of a retreat, may at any time after the admission into a retreat of an habitual drunkard, by license under his hand permit such habitual drunkard to live with any trustworthy and respectable person named in the license willing to receive and take charge of him for a definite time for the benefit of his health.

Such a license shall not be in force for more than two months, but may at any time before the expiration of that period be renewed for a further period not exceeding two months, and so from time to time until the habitual drunkard’s period of detention has expired.