Lunacy Act, 1890

Visits to paupers in institutions for lunatics.

201.—(1) A medical practitioner appointed by the guardians of a union, and also the guardians of any union shall be permitted whenever they see fit, between eight in the morning and six in the evening, to visit and examine any pauper lunatic chargeable to the union confined in any institution for lunatics, unless the medical officer of the institution delivers to the person or persons intending to make the visit a statement signed by him certifying that for the reasons set forth in the statement the visit would be injurious to the lunatic.

(2) The medical officer shall forthwith enter in the medical journal the reasons set forth in the statement, and shall sign the entry.