Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1942

Application of section 9 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1925, to officers.

8.Section 9 (which relates to lunatic soldiers on discharge) of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1925 (No. 4 of 1925), shall apply, in respect of an officer who, if he is an officer of the Forces, is retired therefrom on the grounds of infirmity of mind or, if he is an officer of the Reserve of Officers, relinquishes his commission on the said grounds and who is certified by a registered medical practitioner to be a person of unsound mind and to be a proper person to be detained under care and treatment, in like manner as the said section applies to a soldier of the Forces in respect of whom, upon his discharge, it is similarly certified.