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Provisions for registration of hospitals in which lunatics are received.
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231.—(1) When application is made for the registration of a hospital for the reception of lunatics, the Commissioners may depute any one or more members of their body, or may employ such person or persons as they think fit, to inspect the hospital and report to them thereon.
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(2) If the Commissioners are of opinion that the hospital ought not to be registered for the reception of lunatics, they shall make a written report to a Secretary of State, stating the reasons for such opinion, and the Secretary of State shall thereupon finally determine whether the hospital ought to be registered or not.
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(3) If the Commissioners are of opinion or a Secretary of State determines that the hospital ought to be registered, the Commissioners shall issue a provisional certificate of registration.
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(4) A provisional certificate shall be valid for six months from the date of its issue, and for such extended time as the Commissioners allow, unless before its expiration it is superseded by a complete certificate of registration.
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(5) Within three months from the date of the provisional certificate, the managing committee of the hospital shall frame regulations[1]
for the hospital, and shall submit the same to a Secretary of State for approval.
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(6) Upon approval of the regulations by a Secretary of State, the Commissioners shall issue a complete certificate of registration, and shall specify therein the total number of patients of each sex who may be received in the hospital.
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(7) As from the date of a provisional certificate lunatics may be received in the hospital, but if no complete certificate of registration is granted, then no lunatic shall be received or detained in the hospital after the expiration of the provisional certificate.
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(8) The total number of patients and boarders, if any, in a hospital shall at no one time exceed the number of patients for which the hospital is certified.
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(9) No lunatic shall be received in any hospital unless the same has been registered before the passing of this Act, or is registered under a provisional or complete certificate by virtue of this Act.
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(10) The superintendent of any hospital who receives or detains any lunatic in the hospital contrary to the provisions of this Act, or to the terms of the complete certificate of registration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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[1 Power extended to alteration of regulations with approval of Secretary of State by 54 & 55 Vict. c. 65. s. 12.] |
