§ (1) All the powers and duties of the Commissioners in Lunacy under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be transferred to the Board, and His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that anything which under those Acts is required or authorised to be done by, to, or in respect of any one or more Commissioners in 2596 Lunacy or any officer of those Commissioners shall, be done by, to, or in respect of one or more Commissioners under this Act, or the corresponding officer of the Board:
§ Provided that nothing in such Order in Council shall authorise anything by those Acts required to be done by two Commissioners, one a medical practitioner and the other a barrister, to be done otherwise than by two Commissioners, one a medical and the other a legal Commissioner.
§ Lords Amendment: At end, add the words "but the order may provide that in the case of the temporary illness or disability of a medical or legal Commissioner the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State (as the case may be) may appoint a person qualified to be a medical or legal Commissioner to act as substitute so long as the illness or disability continues."
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.