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Escape from Scotland into England or Ireland.
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87.—(1) If any person detained as a lunatic under lawful authority in Scotland escapes into England or Ireland, notice of the escape shall as soon as practicable be given to the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, who may, by writing under the hand of one of such Commissioners, authorise an application to be made by such person as they think fit to any sheriff having jurisdiction in the place where the lunatic was so detained for a warrant authorising such person to retake the lunatic and bring him back to such place.
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(2) Such warrant, when granted, shall in England and Ireland as well as in Scotland be sufficient prima facie evidence that the person stated therein to have escaped was so detained as a lunatic under lawful authority as aforesaid, and of the fact of his escape, and shall be sufficient authority for any justice in England or Ireland to countersign the same; and any such warrant so countersigned may be executed in England or Ireland, as the case may be, by retaking such lunatic and bringing him from thence, to the intent that he may be restored to the custody from which he escaped.
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