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Persons treating any other as lunatic, &c. to make return.
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6. Any person who shall treat or cause to be treated any other person as of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property, by confining him or retaining him in his care or custody, or by causing him to be confined in any hospital, infirmary, gaol, prison, bridewell, lunatic asylum, whether public or private, or other public institution or place of confinement whatsoever for the reception of persons of unsound mind, or in the custody of any other person, or by instituting or defending, or causing to be instituted or defended in his name, any legal proceedings, or by interfering in the management of the property as being the property of a person of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property, or otherwise howsoever, shall, within one week after beginning so to treat or cause to be treated any person as of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property as aforesaid, transmit by post to the registrar a notice or return setting forth his own name, residence, and description, the name, last residence, present abode, and description of the person so treated, the name, residence, and description of the person in whose custody or care the person so treated is, the name or names of the legally qualified medical practitioner or practitioners, or any other person or persons (if any) who shall have certified to the lunacy of the person so treated, the age, the nature of the lunacy, and the property (if any) of the person so treated, together with all such other particulars and circumstances as shall be directed by the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid by any general order; . . . Provided always, that nothing in this section or either of the two previous sections shall have any application to persons of unsound mind who now are or hereafter shall be in any union workhouse, or who have been or shall be admitted to any lunatic asylum in Ireland, in consequence of evidence by declaration or affidavit that they have no property or means: Provided also (notwithstanding anything in the last proviso contained), that if at any time the master of any union workhouse or the resident medical superintendent or manager of any county or district lunatic asylum shall be informed or become aware that any person of unsound mind in the union workhouse of which he is master or any person so admitted as aforesaid to and then being in the asylum of which he is such resident medical superintendent or manager is entitled to any property whatsoever, such master or superintendent shall forthwith report to the said registrar all the information which he may have with reference to such person, and the amount and nature of such property.
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