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Boarding-out.
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209.—(1) A mental hospital authority may make and carry out an arrangement for the boarding-out in a private dwelling (whether within or outside their mental hospital district) of any person detained as a chargeable patient in their district mental hospital or any other institution maintained by them.
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(2) A mental hospital authority may, with the consent of the applicant for the relevant reception order, make and carry out an arrangement for the boarding-out in a private dwelling (whether within or outside their mental hospital district) of any person detained as a private patient in their district mental hospital or any other institution maintained by them.
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(3) A person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority shall not be boarded-out under this section save where the following conditions are complied with:—
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(a) that the boarding-out of the person is recommended by the resident medical superintendent of such hospital,
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(b) that the person is certified by the resident medical superintendent not to require treatment in an institution and not to be dangerous to himself or others,
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(c) that the mental hospital authority are satisfied that the person will be comfortably housed, sufficiently fed and clothed, and otherwise suitably provided for,
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(d) that the mental hospital authority are satisfied that the person in charge of the proposed dwelling is trustworthy and will carry out the directions given to him in relation to the person boarded-out,
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(e) that no other person is boarded-out under this section in the same dwelling.
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(4) A mental hospital authority may, subject to any regulations which the Minister may think fit to make in that behalf, appoint a committee or committees to visit patients boarded-out by the authority under this section and to report to the authority on the condition of such patients and of the dwellings in which they are boarded-out.
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