HC Deb 13 August 1913 vol 56 cc2589-90

(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to—

  1. (a) the granting, transfer, renewal, revocation, and resignation of certificates for institutions;
  2. (b) the management of institutions;
  3. (c) 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;
  4. (d) the inspection of institutions and the visitation of patients therein by the Board and inspectors and other persons;
  5. (e) the notification to the Board of the admission of a patient to an institution;
  6. (f) the transfer of patients from one certified institution to another, and from a State institution to a certified institution, and, in cases appropriate to State institutions, from a certified institution to a State institution;
  7. (g) the discharge of patients from institutions;
  8. (h) the absence of patients from institutions under licence or temporarily without licence;
  9. (i) 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;
  10. (j) the conveyance of persons to and from institutions;
  11. (k) the burial of persons dying in institutions;
  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 approval of homes for defectives;
  14. (n) the holding of inquiries and 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;
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  15. (o) the application, as respects any matters to be dealt with by regulations, of any of the provisions of the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, dealing with the like matters, subject to the necessary modifications and adaptations;
  16. (p) the study of improved methods of treating mental deficiency by duly qualified practitioners in the institutions.

Lords Amendments:—

In paragraph (c), at end, add the words "and otherwise in respect to them."

In paragraph (p), leave out the words "by duly qualified practitioners in the institutions."

Lords Amendments agreed to.