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Procedure as to Chancery lunatics.
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27.—(1) Subject to rules in lunacy the jurisdiction of the Judge in Lunacy as regards administration and management may be exercised by the masters, and every order of a master in that behalf shall take effect unless annulled or varied by the Judge in Lunacy.
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(2) The power to make rules under section three hundred and thirty-eight, sub-section (2), of the principal Act shall extend to all applications under the principal Act and this Act, and also to applications in the Chancery Division of the High Court in cases where such applications are also made under the principal Act.
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(3) The power conferred by section one hundred and forty-eight of the principal Act to make rules fixing per-centage and fees shall be deemed to extend to all proceedings under the principal Act or this Act, whether relating to lunatics so found by inquisition or to any other person in relation to whom or to whose property an order under the said Acts has been or may be made. Provided that in the case of lunatics under the protection of the Judge in Lunacy by virtue of the transmission of the record of an inquisition from Ireland and its entry of record in the High Court, and in the case of persons residing out of England and declared lunatic according to the laws of their place of residence, no per-centage shall be levied except upon income arising from property within the jurisdiction of the Judge in Lunacy and administered under his direction.
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(4) The provisions of section one hundred and sixteen, subsection two, of the principal Act[1]
shall apply to the persons named in sub-section one (d) of the same section though not lunatics.
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[1 S. 116 (2) is rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 47, s. 1. See that Act.] |
