§ (1) Where a person is ordered to be sent to a certified institution or to be placed under guardianship, the local authority-responsible for providing accommodation' for that person or making provision for his guardianship as the case may be, shall be the council of the county or county borough in which he resided (to be specified in the order), and the duties of that council shall include, in the case of a person ordered to be sent to a certified institution, the duty to provide for his conveyance to, and reception and maintenance in, such an institution.
§ (2) An order that a person be sent to an institution or placed under guardianship shall not, where a council will by virtue of this Act become responsible for providing for the conveyance, reception and maintenance of that person in an institution, or making provision for his guardianship, as the case may be, be made unless that council have been given an opportunity of being heard, or, if the order is made by the Secretary of State, of making representations to him.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (2), at end, add the words "and if room is available in an institution suitable for the defective provided by the responsible authority, an order shall not, without the consent of that authority, be made for sending the defective to any other institution."
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.