Lunacy Act, 1890

Chancery Visitors to report to Lord Chancellor.

185.—(1) The Chancery Visitors shall respectively, within a convenient time after each visit, make a report in writing of the state of mind and bodily health and of the general condition and also of the care and treatment of each person visited, which reports shall, annually or oftener, as the Lord Chancellor directs or the board of visitors think expedient, be submitted to the Lord Chancellor.

(2) The Chancery Visitors respectively shall make separate or special reports on any case to the Lord Chancellor as and when they or the board of visitors think expedient, and in particular shall report to him, without delay, any instance in which, on proceeding to visit, they have been unable to discover the residence of or have been by any other circumstance prevented from actually seeing on that occasion the lunatic whom they intended to visit.