§ Page 8, line 38, at end, insert ("and, subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be prescribed by rules made under Section three hundred and thirty-eight of the principal Act, the provisions of Sections two hundred and seventy-five to two hundred and seventy-eight of that Act (which relate to the making of general rules and regulations and the appointment and duties of certain officers) shall apply in relation to institutions maintained by a local authority as they apply in relation to mental hospitals.
§ (5) The Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909, shall have effect as if for references-therein to mental hospitals there were substituted references to institutions maintained by local authorities").
EARL RUSSELLMy Lords, this relates to institutions provided by a local authority, whether they are technically mental hospitals or not. The institutional accommodation which will be transferred to the county council, or rather which has been transferred since April 1, may place at the disposal of some authority premises which they might usefully use in connection with mental cases, but they would not perhaps be institutions under this Bill, and a definition has been drafted to provide that "institutions" shall mean other premises. To those appropriated premises you apply the provisions of the principal Act with regard to their management—that is to say they must have a medical officer of health and a clerk—but in the case of these premises for an appropriated institution it is sufficient to provide that they are a mental hospital. With that the House of Commons do not agree, and the object now is to make it possible to make rules applying to these. The object of subsection 5 in the Amendment is to give the rights to superannuation 1191 in regard to the officers employed in these new premises.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree With the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Earl Russell.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.