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Maintenance for pauper lunatic taken charge of by relatives.
51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.
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57.—(1) Where application is made to the visiting committee of an asylum by any relative or friend of a pauper lunatic confined therein that he may be delivered over to the custody of such relative or friend, the committee may, upon being satisfied that the application has been approved by the guardians of the union to which the lunatic is chargeable or the local authority liable for his maintenance, and, in case the proposed residence is outside the limits of such union or the area subject to such local authority, then also by a justice having jurisdiction in the place where the relative or friend resides, and that the lunatic will be properly taken care of, order the lunatic to be delivered over accordingly.
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(2) Where any such order is made, the authority liable for the maintenance of the lunatic shall pay to the person to whom the lunatic is delivered such allowance for the maintenance of the lunatic, not exceeding the expenses which would be incurred on his account if he were in the asylum, as such authority on the recommendation of the visiting committee of asylum from which the lunatic was delivered over thinks proper.
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(3) For the purposes of section twenty-four, sub-section (2) (f), of the Local Government Act, 1888, a lunatic boarded-out by the authorities of any asylum shall be deemed to be a lunatic maintained in an asylum.
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