Mental Treatment Act, 1945
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Committees of mental hospital authorities. |
95.—(1) A mental hospital authority may from time to time appoint such and so many committees as they think fit for purposes connected with the exercise or performance of any of their powers, duties and functions under this Act which in their opinion would be better or more conveniently regulated or managed by or through a committee. | |
(2) The acts of a committee appointed under this section shall be subject to confirmation by the mental hospital authority appointing the committee, save that the mental hospital authority may, with the sanction of the Minister, empower the committee to do any act (including the institution of legal proceedings) within the authority conferred on the committee by the mental hospital authority which the mental hospital authority themselves could lawfully do. | ||
(3) The quorum, procedure, and place of meeting of a committee appointed under this section shall be such as may be appointed by regulations to be made by the mental hospital authority appointing the committee. | ||
(4) The appointment under sub-section (1) of this section of a committee and the making under sub-section (3) of this section of regulations shall be reserved functions for the purposes of the County Management Acts, 1940 and 1942. | ||
(5) The provisions of sub-section (2) of section 18 of the County Management Act, 1940 (No. 12 of 1940), shall apply in relation to the power to delegate conferred on a mental hospital authority by sub-section (1) of this section. |