§ (1) It shall not be lawful for a person without the consent of the Board to undertake the care and control of more than one person who is a defective, or who is placed under his care as being a defective elsewhere than in an institution, a certified house, or an approved home, and if any person contravenes this provision he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
§ (2) Where a person undertakes the care and control of any person who is a defective or is placed under his care as being a 2594 defective elsewhere than in an institution, a certified house, or an approved home he shall within forty-eight hours after the reception of such person give notice thereof in the prescribed form to the local authority and to the Board, and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
§ (3) If any manager of any institution for defectives, or the owner of a certified house, or the guardian of a defective, detains a patient or exercises any of the powers conferred upon him by this Act after he has knowledge that those powers have expired, he shall be guilty of a iris-demeanour.
§ (4) Nothing in this Section shall apply to or affect any person who under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, or the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1913, receives or detains any person in accordance with those Acts, notwithstanding that the person so received and detained is a defective within the meaning of this Act.
§ Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (4), leave out the words "Acts, 1899 and 1913," and insert instead thereof the words "Act, 1899, as amended by any subsequent enactment."
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.