LUNACY ORDINANCE, 1906

LUNACY ORDINANCE, 1906

-1906.-

No. 1 of 1906, incorporated in No. 1 of 1845.

No. 2 of 1906, incorporated in. No. 3 of 1890.

No. 3 of 1906.
An Ordinance relating to the Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Covrt respect to the care and commitment of Ihe
eastody of the persons and estates of lunatics.
[1st June, 1906.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lunacy Ordinance,
1006.

2. In this Ordinance and in the Lunacy Act, 1890,
(hereinafter called the Act), in so far as it is applied to the
Colony by this Ordinance-
(a) Great Seal in the Act shall te interpreted to include
the seal of the Supreme Court, and the provisions of the Act
with respect to the Lord Chancellor or the Court of Chancery
or any judge in England shall be interpreted to include the
said Supreme Court in. its equity jurisdiction and the judges
thereof ; and every officer (however designated) of the said
Supreme Court or judge thereof having or executing func-
tions of the like kind or analogous to the functions of any
officei. (however designated) acting under the direction of
the said Lord Chancellor, of the Court of Chancery, or of
any judge in england shall be deemed to be within the
meaning of any of the provisions of the Act respecting such
last-mentioned officers.
(b) Lunatic means in idiot or person of unsound mind.
(c) The Treasury in section 148 of the Act shall be
interpreted to include the Governor in Council.

3. The Supreme Court in relation to the persons and,
estates of lunatics shall have, in addition to the powers
conferred upon it by the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873,
such jurisdiction as may be exercised in England by the
Lord Chancellor or other judge or judges of the Supreme
Court of Judicature under the provisions of the Act, or any
Act amending the same.
As amended by law Rev. Ord., 1921.

4. The forms contained in the Schedules to the Act may
be used in the Colony in the cases to which they respectively
have reference with such variations and additions as circum-
stances may require.

[s. 5, rep. No. 12 of 1912]
[Originally No. 3 of 1906. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. 53 Vict. C. 5. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court. Ordinance No. 3 of 1873. Forms.

[Originally No. 3 of 1906. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. 53 Vict. C. 5. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court. Ordinance No. 3 of 1873. Forms.

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