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LUNACY REGULATION (IRELAND) ACT 1871 - SECT 103

Power to appoint a guardian of person of weak mind.

103. When it is established to the satisfaction of [the High Court] that any
person is of weak mind and temporarily incapable of managing his affairs, and
two certificates to that effect shall have been given, each of which shall be
signed by a legally qualified medical practitioner, [the High Court] may, in a
summary way, and without directing any inquiry under a commission of lunacy,
by an order to be made in the matter of such person of weak mind, appoint a
guardian of the person and property or of the property of such
person of weak mind, and shall, in and by such order, specify the nature and
extent of the powers to be exercised by such guardian in respect to the person
and property of such person of weak mind, and may generally make such order as
[it] may consider expedient for the purpose of rendering the property of such
person or the income thereof available for the maintenance or benefit, or for
carrying on the trade or business, or for the support, maintenance, or
education of the family of such person of weak mind, and to provide for the
costs incident to such petition and the proceedings to be had thereon,
provided that the alleged person of weak mind shall have such personal notice
of the application for such order as aforesaid, and every application for any
such order shall be supported by such evidence as [the High Court] shall, by
any general order to be made as herein-after mentioned, direct.

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