HC Deb 05 May 1959 vol 605 cc351-2
Mr. Walker-Smith

I beg to move, in page 108, line 18, to leave out "sections eleven and" and to insert "section".

This Amendment is consequential. Perhaps, in moving it, I might be allowed to say, in order to avoid tedious repetition on my part, that all the remaining Amendments are either of a drafting character or are consequential.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 108, leave out line 23 and insert: Until the expiration of the period of six months beginning with the commencement of this Act or until registration is effected under sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, whichever first occurs

In line 29, leave out "registered under the said Part VIII", and insert: a registered hospital as defined by section seventeen of this Act".

In line 37, leave out "were so registered" and insert: as if the particulars of registration were entered".

In line 39, at the end, insert: (2) Before the expiration of the said period of six months the registration authority for the purposes of the provisions of Part III of this Act relating to mental nursing homes shall, without an application being made in that behalf,

  1. (a) register any person or committee mentioned in the foregoing sub-paragraph in respect of the relevant house, hospital or home as a mental nursing home and (except as mentioned in that sub-paragraph) enter the particulars of registration in the said separate part of the register; and
  2. (b) issue to him or them a certificate of registration specifying as the number of persons permitted to be kept at any one time in the home the number permitted to be kept there immediately before the commencement of this Act.

In page 109, line 3, leave out "were so registered" and insert: as if the particulars of registration were entered".

In line 32, leave out "were so registered", and insert: as if the particulars of registration were so entered".

In line 40, after "fifteen", insert: "or subsection (1) of section twenty".

In page 110, line 30, leave out from "which" to "under" in line 31, and insert: warrants the detention of the patient in a hospital for medical treatment, or his retention".

In page 112, line 5, leave out from beginning to "under" in line 6, and insert: warrants the detention of the patient in a hospital for medical treatment or, as the case may be, his retention".

In page 114, line 18, leave out "may and insert" shall ".

In line 20 at end, insert: and subsection (1) of section one hundred and twenty-two of this Act shall have effect in relation to the application as if paragraph (b) of that subsection were omitted ".

In page 117, line 41 leave out "information or any—[Mr. Walker-Smith].

Bill to be read the Third time Tomorrow.