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Chapter II.
Disability.
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Person under a disability.
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48.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be under a disability while—
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(a) he is an infant, or
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(b) he is of unsound mind, or
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(c) he is a convict subject to the operation of the Forfeiture Act, 1870, in whose case no administrator or curator has been appointed under that Act.
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section but without prejudice to the generality thereof, a person shall be conclusively presumed to be of unsound mind while he is detained in pursuance of any enactment authorising the detention of persons of unsound mind or criminal lunatics.
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