Lunacy Act, 1890

Licences and instruments to be sealed.

152.—(1) All licences, orders, and instruments granted or made, or issued, or authorised by the Commissioners, in pursuance of this Act, except such orders or instruments as are to be made or signed and sealed by one Commissioner or two or more Commissioners, shall be sealed with the seal of the Commission.

(2) All such licences, orders, and instruments, or copies thereof, purporting to be sealed with the seal of the commission, shall be received as evidence of the same respectively, and of the same respectively having been granted, made, issued, or authorised by the Commissioners, without any further proof thereof.

(3) A licence, order, or instrument, or copy thereof, shall not be valid, or have any force or effect, unless it is so sealed.