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Part IX.
County and Borough Asylums.
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Obligation to provide Asylums.
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Local authorities to provide asylums.
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238.—(1) Every local authority, as defined by this Act, shall provide and maintain an asylum or asylums for the accommodation of pauper lunatics.
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(2) Where the asylum accommodation of a local authority appears to the local authority to be insufficient, the local authority may supply the deficiency by exercising the powers by this Act conferred for providing asylum accommodation, or by rebuilding or enlarging any existing asylum.
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(3) For the purpose of providing asylum accommodation, a local authority may purchase any licensed or other houses and land.
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51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.
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(4) For the purpose of providing asylum accommodation a local authority not being a county council shall have the same powers as are by section sixty-five of the Local Government Act, 1888, conferred upon a county council.
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