LUNACY.

No. 3 of 1906.

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Lunatic means an idiot or person of unsound mind : "The Treasury in section 148 of the Act shall be interpreted to include the Governor-in-Council :

Great Seal" in the Act shall be interpreted to include the seal of the Supreme Court, and the provisions of the Act with respect to the Lord Chancellor or the Court of Chancery or any Judge in England shall be interpreted to include the said Supreme Court in its equity jurisdiction and the Judges thereof; and every officer (however designated) of the said Supreme Court or Judge thereof having or executing functions of the like kind or analogous to the functions of any officer (however designated) acting under the direction of the said Lord Chancellor, of the Court of Chancery, or of any Judge in England shall be deemed to be within the meaning of any of the provisions of the Act respecting such last mentioned officers.

3. The Supreme Court in relation to the persons and estates of lunatics shall have, in addition to the powers conferred upon it by the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, such jurisdiction as may be exercised in England by the Lord Chancellor or other Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature under the provisions of the Act, or any Act amending the same.

Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.

No. 3 of 1873.

4. The forms contained in the schedule to the Act may be used in the Colony in the cases to which they respectively have reference with such variations and additions as circumstances may require.

Forms.

[s. 5, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]

No. 4 of 1906, repealed by No. 8 of 1912 s. 87.

No. 5 of 1906.

To amend the law relating to the Property of Married Women.

[15th June, 1906.]

Short title.

1. The Married Women's Property Ordinance, 1906.

2. In this Ordinance,—

* As amended by No. 9 of 1906, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912. As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched. As amended by No. 13 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.

Interpretation. [45 & 46 Vict. c. 75 s. 24.]

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