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Criminal Justice Act 1948

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62Discontinuance of terms " criminal lunatic " and " criminal lunatic asylum ".

(1)Asylums and places appointed under section one of the [23 & 24 Vict. c. 75.] Criminal Lunatic Asylums Act, 1860, shall be called and are in this Act referred to as " Broadmoor institutions "; and accordingly for references to criminal lunatic asylums (by whatever name called) in any enactment there shall be substituted references to Broadmoor institutions.

(2)The expression " criminal lunatic " shall cease to be used; and there shall be substituted for it wherever it occurs in any enactment the expression " Broadmoor patient. "

(3)All Broadmoor institutions shall be under the management of the Board of Control; and every such institution appointed before the commencement of this Act shall, by virtue of this Act and without further assurance, vest in the Minister of Health

(4)For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section sixty-seven of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 81.] National Health Service Act, 1946 (which provides for the grant of superannuation benefits to certain officers engaged in health services), officers employed in Broadmoor institutions shall be deemed to be engaged in health services.

(5)The Board of Control may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, by statutory instrument make rules for the care and treatment of patients detained in Broadmoor institutions; and any statutory instrument containing such rules shall be laid before Parliament after being made.

(6)Section one hundred and sixty-two of the Lunacy Act, 1890 (which requires the Board of Control to make reports on the patients and institutions visited by them), shall have effect as if the references to the patients and institutions therein mentioned included references to Broadmoor patients and Broadmoor institutions respectively.

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