Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1901

Application to Ireland of 53 & 54 Vict. c. 5.ss. 322 and 324.

2.(1.) Sections three hundred and twenty-two (which relates to ill-treatment of lunatics) and three hundred and twenty-four (which relates to abuse of female lunatics) of the Lunacy Act, 1890, shall apply to Ireland, and the said section three hundred and twenty-two as so applied shall extend to striking, and shall include any person employed in the care of a single patient or of a lunatic in a workhouse, and accordingly in that section as so applied there shall be inserted, after the word “otherwise,” the words “or any person employed in the care of a single patient or of a lunatic in a workhouse, strikes.

(2.) Penalties under the said section three hundred and twenty-two as applied to Ireland may be recovered under the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Acts.