Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1901

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: 1901 c. 17
• Year: 1901

Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1901

(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 17.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Lunatics in Ireland.

[17th August 1901]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows.

1 Conditional discharge of criminal lunatics.

(1)1.—(1.) The Lord Lieutenant may, in addition to his power of absolute discharge, also discharge any criminal lunatic conditionally, that is to say, on such conditions as to the duration of such discharge and otherwise as the Lord Lieutenant may think fit.

(2) (2.) Where a criminal lunatic has been conditionally discharged under this section, a report of his condition shall be made to the Lord Lieutenant by such person, at such times and containing such particulars as may be required by the warrant of discharge or as may from time to time to time be required by the Lord Lieutenant.

(3) (3.) Where a criminal lunatic has been conditionally discharged under this section, if any of the conditions of such discharge appear to the Lord Lieutenant to have been broken, or if the conditional discharge is revoked, the Lord Lieutenant may by warrant direct him to be taken into custody and conveyed either to the central asylum for criminal lunatics or to the asylum in which he was detained previous to such conditional discharge; and he may thereupon be so taken and conveyed in like manner as if he had escaped from such asylum, and shall be received and detained therein as if he had been removed thereto in pursuance of the provisions of the Act under which he was so previously detained.

2 Application to Ireland of 53 & 54 Vict. c. 5. ss. 322 and 324.

(1)2.—(1.) Sections three hundred and twenty-two (which relates to ill-treatment of lunatics) and three hundred and twenty-four (which relates to abuse of female lunatics) of the Lunacy Act, 1890, shall apply to Ireland, and the said section three hundred and twenty-two as so applied shall extend to striking, and shall include any person employed in the care of a single patient or of a lunatic in a workhouse, and accordingly in that section as so applied there shall be inserted, after the word ‘otherwise,’ the words ‘or any person employed in the care of a single patient or of a lunatic in a workhouse,...