Mental Treatment Act Amendment Act 1919 (WA)

1919.] Mental Treatment Ict—Amendment. [No. 16.

MENTAL TREATMENT ACT-

AMENDMENT.

10° GEO. V., No. IV.

No. 16 of 1919.

AN ACT to amend the Mental Treatment Aet, 1917.

[Assented to 25th October, 1919.1

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Mental Treatment Let Shoe I le.

Amendment Act, 1919.

2. The Mental Treatment Act, 1.917, is hereby amended Addition of new section to

by the addition of a section, as follows:— principat Act.

3.    (1.) Every person received into a hospital, recep- terntaits t:gett ion

tion house, or licensed house, or received to board or meet of estates.

ledge or taken charge or care of pursuant to this Act

sl all (so long as he continues an inmate of such hospital

or house or to be so boarded, lodged, or taken charge or

care of) be deemed to be an incapable person within the

meaning of the Lunacy Act, 1903, and the provisions of

that Act shall apply to and in respect of him and his

estate accordingly.

(2.) The master may, subject to any order or direc-

tion of the court and to the rules of the court

(a) undertake the general care, protection, and man-

agement of the estate of any such person:.

(b)	supervise and enforce the performance of the obli- gations and duties of any person appointed to undertake the care and management of the estate:
(c)	exercise the powers of a committee of the estate and do all such things with reference to the estate as he might do or might be ordered, auth- orised, or directed to do if he were appointed committee thereof.