HC Deb 14 August 1913 vol 56 cc2777-8

The Board, with the approval of the Secretary for Scotland, may make regulations as to—

  1. (a) the granting, transfer, renewal, revocation, and resignation of certificates for institutions;
  2. (b) the management of institutions, the number of patients to be received therein, the number of private patients (if any) to be received in institutions provided by a district board, and the conditions under which they may be received;
  3. (c)the staff of institutions and of the different grades thereof in proportion to the number of patients therein, their remuneration, and the regulation of their hours and duties;
  4. (d) the classification and treatment of patients in institutions, their instruction, and their employment for suitable occupation, and the reports to he made as to their mental condition;
  5. (e) the inspection of institutions and the visitation of patients therein by the Board and Deputy Commissioners and other persons;
  6. (f) the notification to the Board of the admission of a patient to an institution or under guardianship;
  7. (g) the transfer of patients from one certified institution to another, and from a State institution to a certified institution, and, in special cases, from a certified institution to a State institution;
  8. (h) the discharge of patients from institutions;
  9. (i) the absence of patients from institutions under licence or temporarily without licence;
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  10. (j) 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;
  11. (k) the conveyance of persons to and from institutions or under guardianship;
  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 licences for private dwellings for the reception of defectives under guardianship, and the number to be received in any such dwelling.

Lords Amendments:—

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

In paragraph (m), after the word "guardianship" ["defectives within their guardianship"], insert the words "or otherwise."