§ (1) Every local authority shall constitute a committee for the purposes of this Act, to be called the committee for the care of the mentally defective, consisting of such members of the council appointed by the council as the council may determine, and of such persons, not being members of the Council, but being Poor Law guardians or other persons having special knowledge and experience with respect to the care, control, and treatment of defectives, appointed by the council as the council may determine, and of the persons so appointed some shall be women, and of the whole committee the majority shall be members of the council:
§ Provided that where a local authority has appointed one or more visiting committees or asylums committees under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, then if the council so determine—
- (a) such committee or committees shall act also as the committee for the care of the mentally defective, and in such cases there will be added to each committee at least two women; or
- (b) the members of such committee or committees shall be the members of the council appointed by the council to be members of the committee for the care of the mentally defective.
§ Lords Amendments:—
§ Sub-section (1), paragraph (a), at the beginning, insert the words "the members of."
§ In the same paragraph, after the word "shall" ["committees shall act also"], insert the words "with the addition of at least two women."
§ In the same paragraph, leave out the words "and in such cases there will be added to each committee at least two women."
§ Lords Amendments agreed to.