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LUNACY REGULATION (IRELAND) ACT 1871 - SECT 6

Persons treating any other as lunatic, &c. to make return.

6. Any person who shall treat or cause to be treated any other person as of
unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property, ... by
instituting or defending, or causing to be instituted or defended in his name,
any legal proceedings, or by interfering in the management of the property as
being the property of a person of unsound mind and incapable of managing his
person or property or otherwise howsoever, shall, within one week after
beginning so to treat or cause to be treated any person as of unsound mind and
incapable of managing his person or property as aforesaid, transmit by post to
[the master] a notice or return setting forth his own name, residence, and
description, the name, last residence, present abode, and description of the
person so treated, the name, residence, and description of the person in whose
custody or care the person so treated is, the name or names of the legally
qualified medical practitioner or practitioners, or any other person or
persons (if any) who shall have certified to the lunacy of the person so
treated, the age, the nature of the lunacy, and the property (if any) of the
person so treated, together with all such other particulars and circumstances
as shall be directed by [rules of court].

S.7 rep. by 1946 c.13 (NI) s.16(3) sch.

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