§ The Board may, upon the application of the managers of premises intended for the reception, control, care, and treatment of defectives, if satisfied of the fitness of the premises and of the persons proposing to maintain them for such purposes, grant a certificate to the managers to receive defectives therein, and a certificate so granted shall continue in force for the period for which it is granted or until revoked or resigned under this Act, and an institution so certified is in this Act referred to as a certified instituton.
§ Lords Amendment: At the end of the Clause add the following Sub-sections:—
§ (2) Any institution for the care and training of imbecile children which at the commencement of this Act is licensed under Section seven of the Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1862, shall without certification become a certified institution for defectives under this Act unless and in so far as upon the application of the managers it may be certified under this Act as a certified house; and any person who immediately before the commencement of this- 2777 Act is detained in such an institution may after such commencement continue to be detained therein in like manner and subject to the like conditions as prior to such commencement.
§ (3) The managers of an institution (not being a certified institution provided for their district by a district board) shall not be bound to receive any defective whom they have not expressed their willingness to receive.