Mental Health Act 1959

4 During the period of six months beginning with the commencement of this Act—

(a) the managers of any institution in respect of which a certificate under section thirty-six of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, was in force immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act;

(b) any person who, immediately before that date, had the custody at any place of a patient under section fifty-seven of the Lunacy Act, 1890 ; and

(c) any person who, immediately before that date, had the charge of a certified or temporary patient as a single patient under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, in any place not being a licensed house or nursing home to which paragraph 3 of this Schedule applies,

shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions of Part III of this Act relating to mental nursing homes as if they or he were registered in respect of that institution or place as a mental nursing home and as if the particulars of registration were entered in the separate part of the register referred to in subsection (1) of section fifteen of this Act.