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Absence on trial or for health.
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55.—(1) Any two visitors of an asylum, with the advice in writing of the medical officer, may permit a patient in the asylum to be absent on trial so long as they think fit.
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(2) The visitors may make an allowance to a pauper lunatic absent from the asylum on trial, not exceeding the charge in the asylum, and that allowance, and no more, shall be paid for him as if he were in the asylum.
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(3) The manager of any hospital or licensed house may, with such consent as herein-after mentioned:—
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(a) send or take, under proper control, any private patient or two or more private patients to any specified place [1
or to travel in England] for such period as may be thought fit for the benefit of his or their health:
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(b) permit a private patient to be absent upon trial for such period as may be thought fit.
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(4) The consent required by this section shall be either that of a Commissioner, or in the case of a hospital that of two members of the managing committee, or in the case of a house licensed by justices that of two of the visitors. Any such consent may be renewed, and the place when required to be specified varied.
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(5) Before such consent is given, the approval in writing of the person on whose petition the reception order was made, or by whom the last payment on account of the lunatic was made, shall be produced, unless the consenting persons, on cause being shown, dispense with the same.
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(6) A Commissioner as regards any hospital or any licensed house, and two members of the managing committee of a hospital, and two of the visitors of a house licensed by [2
justices] may, of their own authority, permit a pauper patient to be absent upon trial for such period as may be thought proper, and may make or order to be made an allowance to the pauper, not exceeding the charge for him in the hospital or house, which shall be payable as if he were in the hospital or house, but shall be paid over to him or for his benefit as [3
such Commissioner or such two visitors] may direct.
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(7) The medical officer of a hospital or licensed house may, of his own authority, permit any patient to be absent from the hospital or house for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours.
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(8) If a person allowed to be absent on trial for any period does not return at the expiration thereof, and a medical certificate certifying that his detention as a lunatic is no longer necessary is not sent to the visitors of the asylum or the manager of the hospital or house, he may at any time within fourteen days after the expiration of the period of trial be retaken as in the case of an escape.
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[1 Words in brackets added by 54 & 55 Vict. c. 65, s. 9 (1).]
[2 Substituted for “visitors” by 54 & 55 Vict. c. 65, s. 9 (2).]
[3 Substituted by 54 & 55 Vict. c. 65, s. 9 (2).] |
