Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871

11 Medical visitors may be ordered to visit alleged lunatic, and report.

The Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid may at any tune and from time to time direct one or more of the medical visitors to visit any alleged lunatic, and inquire into the state and condition of his mind, and his capacity or incapacity to manage his person or property, and his residence, mode of treatment, and condition generally, and also to make such other specific inquiries relative to the alleged lunatic as to the Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid may seem fit, and to report thereon, and every report, notice, or return made in pursuance of this or any of the previous sections of this Act shall be filed in the office of the registrar, but it shall not be permitted to be inspected by nor shall any copy thereof be given to any person without a special order of the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid to that effect, and to be made in the matter of the alleged lunacy : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall affect the power of the Lord Chancellor for the time being to direct the inspectors appointed under an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and seven, or any Act continuing the same, to make a special visitation and report in relation thereto.