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Lunacy Acts Amendment Bill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 31 , Issue 134 , July 1885 , pp. 206 - 215
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1885 

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* Subsequently, also, by a Committee of the College of Physicians, appointed on the proposal of Dr. Wilson Fox. Google Scholar

† See “Notes and News” Google Scholar

* The numbers of Clauses, &c., refer to the nnamended Bill. Google Scholar

* Clause 16 of the Bill enacts that “any person who makes a wilful misstatement of any material fact in any medical or other certificate under the Act 8 and 9 Viet., cap. 100, or the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, or the Acts amending these Acts respectively, or under this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.” To this clause heavy penalties were attached in the original Bill, but in their place the above reference to the Attorney-General, &c., is substituted. No one can complain that wilful mis-statements should be liable to punishment. Google Scholar

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