Lunacy Act, 1890

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Charge for permanent improvements.

118.—(1) The Judge may order that the whole or any part of any moneys expended or to be expended under his order for the permanent improvement, security, or advantage of the property of the lunatic, or of any part thereof, shall, with interest, be a charge upon the improved property or any other property of the lunatic, but so that no right of sale or foreclosure during the lifetime of the lunatic be conferred by the charge.

(2) The interest shall be kept down during the lunatic’s lifetime, out of the income of his general estate, as far as the same is sufficient to bear it.

(3) The charge may be made either to some person advancing the money, or if the money is paid out of the lunatic’s general estate, to some person as a trustee for him, as part of his personal estate.