Lunacy Act, 1891

section 27.

6. Where a workhouse is situate in a county which does not include the union to which the workhouse belongs, a summary reception order made by a justice of the county in which the workhouse is situate may order a lunatic in the workhouse to be received in any asylum, in which pauper lunatics chargeable to the union, to which the workhouse belongs, may legally be received.

[S. 7 substitutes a sub-s. for s. 38 (4) of the principal Act. See that Act.]