Mental Health Act 1959

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

(a) the managers of any premises, or the person approved under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, in respect of any house which, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, were or was an approved home within the meaning of section fifty of that Act;

(b) any person who, immediately before that date, had the care and control in any place of any defectives with the consent of the Board of Control under subsection (1) of section fifty-one of that Act;

(c) any person who, immediately before that date, had the care and control in any place (not being a place to which paragraph 4(c) of this Schedule applies) of any voluntary patient received as a single patient under section one of the Mental Treatment Act, 1930; and

(d) any person who, immediately before that date, Was registered or exempted from registration under Part VI of the Public Health Act, 1936, or under Part XI of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, in respect of a nursing home which, if this Act had been in force, would have been a mental nursing home within the meaning of Part III of this Act (not being a place to which paragraph 4(c) of this Schedule applies),

shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions of the said Part III as if they or he were registered in respect of that home or place and, in the case of a home or place being a mental nursing home within the meaning of the said Part IE, as if the particulars of registration were so entered otherwise than in the separate part of the register referred to in subsection (1) of section fifteen of this Act.