Lunacy Act, 1890

Reports to be kept secret.

186.—(1) The reports of the Chancery Visitors shall be filed and kept secret in their office, and shall not be open to the inspection of any person save the members of the board of visitors, and the Judge in Lunacy and such persons as he specially appoints.

(2) All the reports relating to any particular patient shall be destroyed on his death, and shall also be destroyed on the inquisition in his case being superseded, or being vacated and discharged on a traverse, unless a Judge in Lunacy, within fourteen days after the supersedeas, or the vacating and discharge on a traverse, specially orders that the same be not destroyed until the lunatic’s death.

Lunatics in Asylums.