Lunacy Act 1868 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO SECUNDO

VICTORIE REGINAE.

No* l.

An Act *further to amem! '' The Lztncbtics Act, 1864,"

[Assented to, 21th November, 1868.1

HEREAS it is expedient to amcnd " The Lunatics Act, 1964,"

by authorizing the Governor with the advice of the Execu-

tive Council, to appoint the Resident Medical Officer fbr the time

bcing of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum, to act as the Resident Medical

Officer of such other Lunatic Asylums to be hereafter proclaimed under the provisions of the said Act as to the said Govcrnor with the advice aforesaid may seem expedient-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of

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the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. This Act and the said " The Lunatics Act, 1864," shall be incorporated and read together as forming one Act.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the said	The Lunatics	Rasideut Medical
OEccr of Adelaide

Act, 1864," or "The Lunatics Act 1865-6,'' to the contrary, the	Lunatic Asylum may
Governor may with the advice of the Executive Council, appoint	Reaident Medical be appointed to act AB
the Resident Medical Officer for the time being of the Adelaide	Officer of other
Lunatic Asylum, to act as the Resident MedicalOfficer of any other	Asylums.
Lunatic Asylum hereafter to be yroclainied, under the said G The Lunatics Act, 1864," and thereupon, and until the Governor with the advice aforesaid, shall otherwise order, such Resident Medical Officer shall, in addition to his other duties, perform all the duties, and have and exercise in respect to such last-mentioned Asylum

(although

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(although not resident therein), all the powers and authorities imposed or conferred by the bcfore-mentioned Acts, or either of

them, upon the Resident Medical Officer of any Aeylum duly pro-

claimed thereunder.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

F. G. HAMLEY, Governor.

Adelaide : Printed by authority, by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-tenace.