They are empowered to grant superannuation annuities to the officers and servants.
They are directed to make an annual report to the general or quarter sessions of the state of the asylum.
Every pauper lunatic, not in an asylum, hospital, or licensed house, is to be visited every quarter by the medical officer of the parish or union, who is to make return thereof; and the medical officer is to be paid two shillings and sixpence for every visit.
The forms of orders, statements, and medical certificates are amended, and the medical officers of unions are permitted to sign certificates.
The medical man certifying is required to state his qualification, when and where the patient was examined, and to specify facts indicating insanity; distinguishing facts observed by himself from those communicated to him by others.
Visitors are empowered to order the removal of pauper patients to and from asylums, and also to discharge or permit the absence on trial of any patient. The Commissioners are empowered to direct the removal of any lunatic from any asylum, hospital, or licensed house to any other.
The person signing the order for admission of a private patient into an asylum may discharge such patient, subject, in the case of dangerous lunatics, to the consent of the visiting justices. Any person having authority to discharge a private patient is empowered (with consent of two Commissioners) to transfer him to another asylum or to the care of any person.
Orders and certificates, if defective, may be amended within fourteen days.
Patients escaping may be retaken within fourteen days.
This statute did not re-enact the clause contained in the Act it repealed respecting workhouses.