5Manager, &c. of asylum, on receiving any lunatic, &c. to make return.
Every resident medical superintendent or manager of any district or county or other public lunatic asylum, and every proprietor of any lunatic asylum, and every person whosoever who-shall receive into or keep and detain in his custody or care any person being of unsound mind, shall within one week from the date at which he shall have received into or begun to keep or detain in his custody or care any such person, transmit by post to the registrar a notice or return setting forth his own name, residence, and description, the name, last known residence, and description of such person so received or kept or detained, the name, residence, and description of the person by whom or by whose order or direction or request such person so declared had been delivered into or was then kept and detained in the custody or care of the person making or giving such return or notice, the name or names of the legally qualified medical practitioner or practitioners, or of any other person or persons (if any) who shall have certified to the lunacy of the said person so received or kept or detained, and also the age, the nature of the lunacy, and property (if any) of such person, together with all such other circumstances as shall be directed by the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid by any general order; and shall within like period after detention or custody ceasing, or place of detention or custody being changed, give like notice of such cesser or change of detention or custody, with such further particulars as shall be directed by the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid by any general order; and every person who is by this section required to make such return as aforesaid, and who has at the time of the passing of this Act any person of unsound mind in his care or custody, shall make the like return or notice with regard to such last-mentioned person within one month after a date to be fixed by the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid for the county or province in which such last-mentioned person is in such custody or care as aforesaid, of which date when so fixed due notice shall be given by publication in the Dublin Gazette and in some newspaper circulating in the county or province for which such day has been so fixed.