§ (1) Where the order is made in respect of a person found guilty of an offence, that person shall for the purposes of the foregoing Section be presumed to have resided in the place where the offence was or was alleged to have been committed, unless it is proved that he resided in some other place:
§ Provided that where the defective has been charged with more than one offence in separate parishes the presumption shall arise in respect of the offence which is first in point of date:
§ Provided further that before such order is made notice shall be given to the parish council of the parish and the district board of the district in which the offence has been committed.
§ (2) Where the order is made by the Secretary for Scotland then—
- (a) if the order is in respect of a person in a prison criminal lunatic asylum, or place of detention, that person shall for the purposes of the foregoing Section be presumed to have resided in the place where the
2779 offence was or was alleged to have been committed, unless it is proved that he resided in some other place; - (b) if the order is in respect of a person in an inebriate reformatory or reformatory or industrial school, that person shall for the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this Section be deemed to have resided in the place (if any) determined to have been his place of residence for the purposes of his committal to the inebriate reformatory or reformatory or industrial school."
§ Lords Amendments:
§ In Sub-section (1). leave out the words "where the defective has been charged with more than one offence in separate parishes," and insert instead thereof the words "the finding has been in respect of more than one offence."
§ In Sub-section (2), paragraph (a), after the word "asylum" ["prison criminal lunatic asylum "], insert the words "or department, inebriate reformatory."
§ In paragraph (b), leave out the words "or inebriate reformatory or," and insert instead thereof the word "a."
§ Leave out the words "provisions of this."
§ Leave out the words "inebriate reformatory or" ["committal to the inebriate reformatory or reformatory or industrial school"].