STAMP. 18° GEO. V., No. X. No. 10 of 1927. AN ACT to continue the operation of certain provisions in the Second Schedule to the Stamp Act, 1921, relating to Duty on Conveyances on the sale of Property. BE [Assented to 6th December, 1927.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. This Act may be cited as the Stamp Act Amendment short title. Act, 1927. Second Schedule. 2. The second schedule to the Stamp Act, 1921 (as Amendment of amended by the Stamp Act Amendment Act, 1926), is hereby further amended by the substitution in lines nine and thirty respectively of the item commencing with the words "Conveyance or transfer on the sale of property," of the figures"1929" in place of the figures "1928." TRAFFIC. 18° GEO V., No. XI. No. 11 of 1927. Short title. Amendment of sec. 13. AN ACT to amend Section thirteen of the Traffic Act, BE 1919-1926. [Assented to 11th November, 1927.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. This Act may be cited as the Traffic Act Amendment Act, 1927, and shall be read as one with the Traffic Act, 1919-1926, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. 2. Section thirteen of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "area," in line seven of paragraph (c) of subsection two thereof, the words "and the Board controlling Reserve A1720 (the King's Park). ” AN ACT to continue the operation of the Industries [Assented to 16th November, 1927.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Industries Assistance short title. Act Continuance Act, 1927. 2. Section fifteen of the Industries Assistance Act Continuance of Aet. Amendment Act, 1917, as amended by section two of the Industries Assistance Act Amendment Act, 1926, is hereby further amended by omitting the figures "1928," and inserting the figures "1929" in place thereof. Short title. Hospitals and reception houses for mental patients. Voluntary patients. No. 13 of 1927. AN ACT to amend the Law relating to Persons suffering from Mental Disorder. BE [Assented to 23rd November, 1927.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Mental Treatment Act, 1927, and shall be read as one with the Lunacy Act, 19031920, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. 2. (1) The Governor may (a) establish hospitals for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from mental or nervous disorder who have not been found, declared, or certified to be insane; and (b) constitute wards in public hospitals reception houses for the treatment of such persons. (2) The Governor may appoint for any hospital established under this Act a superintendent and such other officers as may be deemed necessary. 3. (1) Any person suffering from mental or nervous disorder who has not been found, declared, or certified to be insane, may be received into a hospital or reception house under this Act as a voluntary patient on his own application, or, in the case of a person under the age of twenty-one, on the application of his parent or guardian. (2) Every application shall be in writing, in the prescribed form, signed by the applicant or his parent or guardian and witnessed by a justice of the peace. (3) The period for which a person is received into a hospital or reception house on an application under this section shall be six months, unless a shorter period is stated in the application; but, subject to the regulations, the application may be renewed: Provided that a patient received under this section (a) may be discharged from a hospital or reception (b) shall be discharged at the expiration of ten days (4) In this section the expression "parent or guardian" includes any person who undertakes or performs towards the person suffering as aforesaid the duty of a parent or guardian. patients. 4. (1) If, on an application made by any person, in the involuntary prescribed manner, to a justice of the peace, it is proved to the satisfaction of such justice that a person is suffering from mental or nervous disorder, and has not been found, declared or certified to be insane, and that it is in the interest of such person or of the public that he should be received into a hospital or reception house for treatment under this Act, the justice may, by an order in the prescribed form, order that such person may be taken charge of, conveyed to, and received into a hospital or reception house for a period not exceeding six months. The justice may accept as proof that a person is suffering from mental or nervous disorder and should be received into a hospital or reception house, a certificate, in the form in the Schedule to this Act, signed by two medical practitioners within seven days prior to the date of the order, and may interview such person at any place the justice may think fit; but unless such certificate is produced, the evidence of two medical practitioners shall be essential: Provided that if in any part of the State it is impracticable to obtain the certificate of two medical practitioners, au order may be made on the certificate of one medical prac |