A.D. 1926. Amendment of s. 2 of principal Act. Amendment of s. 6 of principal Act. Amendment of s. 11 of principal Act. 66 that they require care, supervision and control for their own protection or for the protection of others and, in the case of children, that they appear to be permanently incapable by reason of such 5 defectiveness of receiving proper benefit Irom the instruction in ordinary schools: · (d) Moral defectives, that is to say, persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness coupled with strong vicious or 10 criminal propensities and who require care, supervision and control for their own protection or for the protection of others. "(2) For the purposes of this section 'mental 15 defectiveness' means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind whether innate or induced after birth by disease, injury or other cause. 2. Section two of the principal Act (which specifies 20 the circumstances rendering defectives subject to be dealt with under that Act) shall be amended as follows: (1) In paragraph (b) (i) of subsection (1) there shall be inserted after the word "treated " the words or not under proper care and control": (2) The words "by way of supervision or guardianship" in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) shall be repealed: 66 66 25 (3) In paragraph (b) of subsection (2) for the words 3. Proviso (a) to subsection (3) of section six of 4. (1) Where a defective who under an order has been sent to an institution is absent therefrom, whether under licence or otherwise, in accordance with any regulations made under section forty-one of the principal 40 Act, the local authority may, for the purposes of the special report mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section eleven of the principal Act, make arrangements for his examination by a duly qualified medical prac- A.D. 1926. titioner residing in the locality where the defective for the time being is, and the report made in any such case shall state whether, in the opinion of the medical 5 practitioner, the continuance of the order is required in the interests of the defective. [(2) Any expenses incurred by a local authority in connection with any such arrangement as aforesaid shall be defrayed in like manner as the expenses of a local 10 authority under section thirty-three of the principal Act. 5.-(1) Section twenty-one of the principal Act Amendment (which relates to the central authority) shall have effect of ss. 21 and as if after the word "supervision "there were inserted 30 of prin15 the word "training." cipal Act. (2) Section thirty of the principal Act (which relates to the general powers and duties of local authorities) shall have effect as though after paragraph (c) thereof there were inserted the following 20 paragraph:— "(cc) to provide suitable training for defectives who are under supervision or guardianship or defectives. 6.--(1) A local authority by which any certified Institutions 25 institution is provided may contract with any other for mental local authority for the reception and maintenance in the institution of persons for whose reception and maintenance that other local authority are by the principal Act required or authorised to make provision. 30 (2) Subject to the approval of the Board of Control and the Board of Education, the council of a county or county borough may, in the exercise of its functions as a local authority for the purposes of the principal Act and as a local education authority, provide and maintain 35 institutions to be used both as certified institutions under the principal Act and as certified schools for defective children under the Education Act, 1921, and the council shall determine in what proportions the expenses incurred in the provision and maintenance of 40 any such institutions ought to be treated as having been incurred by the council in the exercise of its functions as A.D. 1926. exercise of its functions as a local education authority respectively, and the said expenses shall be defrayed accordingly. Short title and construction. 7. This Act may be cited as the Mental Deficiency Act, 1926, and the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 5 1919, the Mental Deficiency (Amendment) Act, 1925, and this Act, may be cited together as the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1926. An Act to amend certain enactments relating to mental defectives. Brought from the Lords 28 July 1926. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 29 July 1926. [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE C.] ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Definition of defectives. 2. Amendment of section 2 of principal Act. 3. Amendment of section 4 of principal Act. 4. Amendment of section 6 of principal Act. 5. Amendment of section 8 of principal Act. 6. Amendment of section 11 of principal Act. 7. Amendment of section 15 of principal Act. 8. Amendment of sections 21 and 30 of principal Act. |