HL Deb 29 May 1930 vol 77 cc1187-8

Page 6, line 37, leave out subsection (12) and insert as a new subsection:— ("(12) If a person who has been received as a temporary patient becomes capable of expressing himself as willing or unwilling to continue to receive treatment, he shall not thereafter be detained for more than twenty-eight days unless in the meantime he has again become incapable of so expressing himself.")

EARL RUSSELL

My Lords, this new subsection is consequential upon the decision to change the words "incapable of volition."

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Earl Russell.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.