criminal lunatics.

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

[17th August 1901.]

Be 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:

Conditional 1.-(1.) The Lord Lieutenant may in addidischarge of tion 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.) 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 be required by the Lord Lieutenant.

(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 pre

A.D. 1901. vious to such conditional discharge; and he

c. 5. ss. 322 and 324.

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.

Application 2. (1.) Sections three hundred and twentyto Ireland of 53 & 54 Vict. 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, strikes."

Provision as to expenses

(2.) Penalties under the said section three hundred and twenty-two as applied to Ireland may be recovered under the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Acts.

3.-(1.) Subject as in this section mentioned, of criminal all expenses incurred in relation to a criminal and danger- lunatic confined in a district lunatic asylum, ous lunatics. and all expenses of removing any such lunatic

38 & 39 Vict. c. 67.

from a prison or the central asylum for criminal lunatics to a district lunatic asylum, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and such first-mentioned expenses shall be calculated in accordance with regulations to be made by the Lord Lieutenant with the approval of the Treasury.

(2.) Section sixteen of the Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1875 (which relates to the case of a patient confined in a district lunatic asylum who has an estate applicable to his maintenance or for whose maintenance any person is liable), shall extend to a criminal lunatic confined in any such asylum, and to any person confined therein under section ten 30 & 31 Vict. of the Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1867.

c. 118.

(3.) This section shall come into operation on the first day of April one thousand nine hundred and two.

34 & 35 Vict.

c. 22.

4. The powers, authorities and duties to be A.D. 1901. had, exercised and performed under the Jurisdiction Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1871, by the with respect Lord Chancellor for the time being intrusted to lunatics. by virtue of the King's Sign Manual with the care and commitment of the persons and estates of persons found idiot, lunatic, or of unsound mind, shall and may be exercised either by the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid acting alone or jointly with one or more of such judges of the Supreme Court as may for the time being be intrusted as aforesaid, or (save as to the powers conferred by sections one hundred and eight, one hundred and twelve, and one hundred and fifteen of the said Act) by any one or more of such judges as aforesaid.

unite for

purposes of

research.

5. The committees for any two or more Powersto district lunatic asylums may, with the consent of the councils of the counties affected, agree pathologis to unite in providing and maintaining a laboratory for pathological research in connection with insanity and nervous diseases, and may defray the expenses incurred in pursuance of an agreement under this section by contributions from the funds at their disposal for the maintenance of their respective asylums.

6. In this Act the expression "criminal Definition. lunatic" means:

(a) any person for whose safe custody

during His Majesty's or the Lord Lieute-
nant's pleasure, His Majesty or the Lord
Lieutenant or the Admiralty is authorised
to give order; and

(b) any person whom the Lord Lieutenant or a Secretary of State or the Admiralty has, in pursuance of any Act, directed to be removed to an asylum or other place for the reception of insane persons: Provided that a person shall cease to be a criminal lunatic if he is reinitted to prison or absolutely discharged, or if any term of penal servitude or imprisonment to which he may be subject determines.

7. This Act may be cited as the Lunacy Extent and (Ireland) Act, 1901, and may be cited with short title.

the Lunacy (Ireland) Acts, 1821 to 1890.

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An Act to amend the Law with reference to International Arrangements for Patents. [17th August 1901.]

BE 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 assem. bled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.—(i.) In the first proviso to sub-section one of section one hundred and three of the

gements. Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 17 Vict. 1883 (which section relates to the time for making applications for protection under inter

57.

national arrangements), the words "twelve months" shall be substituted for the words seven months."

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(2.) An application under that section shall be accompanied by a complete specification, which, if it be not accepted within the period of twelve months, shall, with the drawings (if any), be open to public inspection at the expiration of that period.

2.-(1.) This Act may be cited as the Short title, Patents Act, 1901, and may be cited and shall construc be construed as one with the Patents, Designs, commenceand Trade Marks Acts, 1883 to 1888.

(2.) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and two.

tion, and ment.

8. Notice to Local Government Board.

9. Definition of “voter.”

14. Repeal.

SCHEDULE.

A.D. 1901. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Public Libraries, Museums, and Gymnasiums, and to regulate the Liability of Managers of Libraries to Proceedings for Libel. [17th August 1901.]

Short title and construction.

e. 53.

BE 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:

Amendment of Public Libraries Acts,
1892 and 1893.

1. This Act may be cited as the Public Libraries Act, 1901, and shall be construed as 55 & 56 Vict. One with the Public Libraries Act, 1892 (herein-after referred to as the principal Act), 56 & 57 Vict. and the Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be together cited as the Public Libraries Acts, 1892 to 1901.

c. 11.

Qualifica tion of library com

2. (1.) Any commissioners appointed for a library district under the principal Act may missioners. be either voters in the district or persons who, though not voters, would, if the district were a rural parish having a parish council, be qualified for election as parish councillors.

56 & 57 Vict. c. 73.

Power to library authority to make byelaws.

61 & 62 Vict. c. 53.

(2.) Section forty-six of the Local Government Act, 1894, relating to disqualifications for election to or membership of certain au thorities, shall have effect as if a library authority, being a body of commissioners appointed under the principal Act, were one of the authorities mentioned in that section.

3.-(1.) A library authority may make byelaws for all or any of the following purposes relating to any library, museum, art gallery, or school, which by virtue of the principal Act or this Act is under their control, that is to say:

(a) for regulating the use of the same and of the contents thereof, and for protecting the same and the fittings, furniture, and contents thereof from injury, destruction, or misuse;

(b) for requiring from any person using the same any guarantee or security against the loss of or injury to any book or other article;

(c) for enabling the officers and servants of the library authority to exclude or remove therefrom persons committing any offence against the Libraries Offences Act, 1898, or against the byelaws. (2.) All byelaws under this section shall be made subject and according to the provisions respecting byelaws contained in sections one

hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and A.D. 1901. eighty-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, and 38 & 29 Vict. those sections shall apply as if the expression c. 55. local authority" therein included in every case a library authority.

(3.) All offences and penalties under any such byelaw may be prosecuted and recovered in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

4. The Libraries Offences Act, 1898, shall Extension of apply to any museum, art gallery, or school 61&2 Vict. provided under the Public Libraries Act, 1892.

c. 53.

authorities

for use of

5.-(1.) The library authorities of two or Power to more library districts may agree to share, in library, such proportions and for such period as may to make be determined by the agreement, the cost of the agreements purchase, erection, repair, and maintenance library. of any library building in one of those districts, and also the cost of the purchase of books and newspapers for such library, and all other expenses connected with the same, and may also agree as to the management and use of the library, and as to the interchange, hire, and use of books and newspapers belonging to such authorities respectively.

(2.) This section shall apply, with the neces sary modifications, to a museum, school for science, art gallery, or school for art, in like manner as to a library.

Vict. e. 53.

6. In a library district, being a parish, the Amendment sanction of the parish meeting or vestry shall of 55 & 50 not be required annually for raising the sums s. 18, as to from time to time due from the parish for expenses in parishes. defraying the expenses incurred by the library authority, and those sums shall be paid by the overseers on the order of the library authority. But in any parish in a rural district the sanction of the parish meeting shall be required in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and in every tenth year thereafter: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of section eleven of the Local Government Act, 1894.

56 & 57 Vict. c. 73.

and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, and of the expression "sanitary authority " for "local authority."

Application of the Museums and Gymnasiums Act, 1891, and Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1893, to London.

to London

Vict. c. 11.

13. The Museums and Gymnasiums Act, Application 1891, and the Public Libraries (Amendment) of 54 & 65 Act, 1893, shall extend to the administrative Vict. c. 22. county of London, and for the purpose of such and 56 & 57 extension shall be modified as follows:The expression "urban authority" shall include the common council of the city of London and a metropolitan borough council, and the expression "district" or "urban district" shall include the city of London and a metropolitan borough; Any expenses incurred by the common council of the city of London or by a metropolitan borough council under the Museums and Gymnasiums Act, 1891, so far as they are not defrayed by fees and other money received under the said Act, shall be defrayed in the manner in which expenses incurred by that council under the principal Act are payable.

Repeal.

14. The Acts mentioned in the schedule to Repeal. this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.