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Page 23, line 9, at end insert:
("4. Applying to temporary patients received under Section five of this Act, subject to such modifications and adaptations, if any, as appear to the Board to be necessary or convenient, the following provisions of the principal Act, that is to say, Section forty (which regulates the use of mechanical means of restraint), Section forty-one (which relates to the letters of patients), Section forty-two (which relates to the posting of notices), Section forty-seven (which relates to the visits of friends), Section forty-nine (which empowers the Board of Control to order the examination of a patient by two medical practitioners), Section fifty (which relates to inquiries as to property), Section fifty-one (which relates to searches in the records of the Board of Control), and Section eighty-five (which provides for the retaking of patients who have escaped).
5. Modifying and adapting, in relation to institutions maintained by local authorities not being mental hospitals, the provisions of Sections two hundred and seventy-five to two hundred and seventy-eight of the principal Act (which relate to the making of general rules and regulations and the appointment and duties of certain officers.")
EARL RUSSELLMy Lords, this has been inserted in deference to representations made to the Minister that the various provisions specified there, which now apply to certified patients, should be applied with such adaptation as necessary to temporary patients. They are in the nature of additional safeguards. No doubt some of them will be rarely needed, but it has been decided to put 1212 them in. Paragraph 5 in the Amendment is consequential.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Earl Russell).