HC Deb 06 August 1913 vol 56 cc1693-5

The Board, with the approval of the Secretary for Scotland, may make regulations as to—

  1. (a) the granting, transfer, renewal, revocation, and resignation of certificates for institutions;
  2. (b) the management of institutions, the number of patients to be received 1694 therein, the number of private patients (if any) to be received in institutions provided by a district board, and the conditions under which they may be received;
  3. (c) the number of the different grades of the staff of institutions in proportion to the number of patients therein, their remuneration, and the regulation of their hours and duties;
  4. (d) the classification and treatment of patients in institutions, their instruction, and their employment in suitable occupations, and the reports to be made as to their mental condition;
  5. (e) the inspection of institutions and the visitation of patients therein by the Board and Deputy Commissioners and other persons;
  6. (f) the notification to the Board of the admission of a patient to an institution or under guardianship;
  7. (g) the transfer of patients from one certified institution to another, and from a State institution to a certified institution, and, in special cases, from a certified institution to a State institution;
  8. (h)the discharge of patients from institutions;
  9. (i) the absence of patients from institutions under licence or temporarily without licence;
  10. (j) the notifications to be made by the managers in the event of the outbreak of an infectious disease in an institution and in the event of the death of a patient in an institution or absent therefrom under licence;
  11. (k) the conveyance of persons to and from institutions or under guardianship;
  12. (l) the powers and duties of persons appointed guardians of defectives under this Act; the reports to be made by such guardians as to defectives under their guardianship; the visitation of such defectives; and their discharge from guardianship;
  13. (m) the granting, renewal, and revocation of licences for private dwellings for the reception of defectives under guardianship, and the number to be-received in any such dwelling;
  14. (n) the holding of inquiries;
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  15. (o) any other matter necessary or proper for the carrying into effect of the provisions of this Act with respect to institutions, and the inmates thereof, and to guardianship; and
  16. (p) the application as respects defectives, of any of the provisions of the Lunacy Acts for the greater protection of lunatics, subject to the necessary modifications and adaptations.

Mr. GLADSTONE

I beg to move in paragraph (c) to leave out the words "number of the different grades of the staff of institutions" and to insert instead thereof the words "staff of institutions and of the different grades thereof." This is a drafting Amendment, and the point is a very small one. The present wording of the Clause does not seem to carry out the intention of the Bill, which I presume is to give the general board power to make regulations not only as to the number of different grades of the staff of institutions, but as to the numbers in these grades as well. My Amendment simply makes it clear that both objects are covered by the Bill.

Captain WARING

I beg to second the Amendment.

Mr. McKINNON WOOD

I see no objection to this Amendment, and I will accept it.

Question, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.

Words, "staff of institutions and of the different grades thereof" inserted.