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13In the Lunacy Act, 1891, the following adaptations shall be made—
(a)a direction under subsection (2) of section two may authorise one relieving officer to discharge the duties of a relieving officer in respect of lunatics throughout any specified portion of a county or county borough;
(b)for section six the following section shall be substituted:
“Where a workhouse is not situate within the county or county borough to which the workhouse belongs, a summary reception order made by a justice of the county or county borough in which the workhouse is situate may order a lunatic in the workhouse to be received in any asylum in which pauper lunatics chargeable to the county or county borough to which the workhouse belongs may legally be received”;
(c)section twenty-five (which enables the chairman of a board of guardians to be authorised to sign reception orders in respect of pauper lunatics) shall cease to have effect.
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