Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act 1851

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Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act 1851
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to continue an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland.
Citation14 & 15 Vict. c. 45
Territorial extent Ireland
Dates
Royal assent1 August 1851[1]
Status: Spent

The Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 45) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act extended the Private Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act 1842, which would have expired at the end of that session of Parliament, until the end of the session of Parliament underway on 31 July 1855.[1] The Act was superseded by the Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1867 and the Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act 1875.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Fourth Session of the Fifteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 170.