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Patients not to be received under certificates by interested persons.
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32.—(1) No person shall be received or detained as a lunatic in any institution for lunatics, or as a single patient, where any certificate accompanying the reception order has been signed by any of the following persons:—
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(a) The manager of the institution or the person who is to have charge of the single patient:
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(b) Any person interested in the payments on account of the patient:
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(c) Any regular medical attendant in the institution:
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(d) The husband or wife, father or father-in-law, mother or mother-in-law, son or son-in-law, daughter or daughter-in-law, brother or brother-in-law, sister or sister-in-law, the partner or assistant of any of the foregoing persons.
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(2) Neither of the persons signing the medical certificate in support of a petition for a reception order shall be the father or father-in-law, mother or mother-in-law, son or son-in-law, daughter or daughter-in-law, brother or brother-in-law, sister or sister-in-law, or the partner or assistant, of the other of them.
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(3) No person shall be received as a lunatic in a hospital under an order made on the application of, or under a certificate signed by, a member of the managing committee of the hospital.
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