25.—(1) A mental hospital authority may, with the consent of the Minister, and shall, if the Minister so directs, provide and maintain a laboratory for research in connection with mental and nervous diseases.
(2) A mental hospital authority by whom a laboratory is maintained under this section may permit the services afforded by the laboratory to be available for a mental institution not maintained by such authority and may make such charge as they consider reasonable where any service is availed of under such permission.
