Lunacy Act, 1890

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Contracts.

256.—(1) Every person entering into a contract with a visiting committee shall give sufficient security for due performance of the contract.

(2) Every such contract and all orders relating thereto shall be entered in a book to be kept by the clerk of the visiting committee, and when the contract is completed the book shall be deposited and kept among the records of the local authority, or, when more than one local authority is interested, then among the records of the local authority which contributes the largest proportion of the expenses of the contract.

(3) Every such book may be inspected at all reasonable times by any person contributing to the rates of the local authority interested in the contract.

(4) A copy of every such book shall be kept at the asylum to which the contract relates.