Lunacy Act, 1890

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Clerk to visitors; his duties and remuneration.

178.—(1) The clerk of the peace or some other person to be appointed by the justices for the county or borough shall act as clerk to the visitors.

(2) The clerk to the visitors shall, at the first meeting of the visitors, make the declaration required by this Act to be made by the secretary of the Commissioners with the necessary modification, such declaration to be made before one of the visitors, being a justice.

(3) The name, place of abode, occupation, and profession of the clerk to the visitors (whether he is the clerk of the peace or any other person), shall within fourteen days after the appointment, be published by the clerk of the peace for the county or borough in some local newspaper, and shall within three days from the date of the appointment be communicated by the said clerk of the peace to the Commissioners.

(4) Every clerk of the peace making default in either of the respects aforesaid shall for every such default be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

(5) Every clerk to the visitors shall be allowed such salary or remuneration for his services as the justices for the county or borough direct.