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Application to Scotland.
20 & 21 Vict. c. 71.
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18. This Act shall come into operation in Scotland on the fifteenth day of May nineteen hundred and ten, and, if not inconsistent with the context, in the application of this Act to Scotland—
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“Asylum” means a district asylum, and “visiting committee” means a district board within the meaning of the Lunacy (Scotland) Acts, 1857 to 1887;
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References to the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland shall be substituted for references to the Secretary of State and also for references to the local authority;
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A reference to the weekly charge for pauper lunatics fixed and approved from time to time pursuant to section seventy-three of the Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1857, shall be substituted for the reference to the weekly sum fixed by the visiting committee under section two hundred and eighty-three of the Lunacy Act, 1890;
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The expression “established officer or servant” has the meaning in this Act assigned thereto, but shall not include an officer or servant who does not devote his whole time to the duties of his office:
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Provided that this Act shall apply to the Greenock parochial asylum and the Kirklands asylum as if they were district asylums, and the respective managing bodies thereof were district boards.
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