Lunacy Act, 1890

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Agreement to unite to be reported and delivered to clerk of local authority.

251.—(1) Every agreement to unite shall as soon as possible be reported to the local authorities interested.

(2) The original of every agreement to unite, and of every agreement varying an agreement to unite, shall be delivered to the clerk of the local authority within whose administrative area the asylum to which the same relates is situate or is intended to be situate, and shall be kept by him among the records of the local authority.

(3) The original agreement so delivered may be inspected without payment by any Commissioner and by any member of the council of any of the contracting local authorities.

(4) The clerk of a local authority to whom any such agreement is delivered shall cause copies to be made thereof, and shall within twenty days after the delivery to him of the original send one copy to the Commissioners and another copy to each of the contracting local authorities.