S.I. No. 17/1949:

MENTAL TREATMENT (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1949.

MENTAL TREATMENT (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1949.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers vested in him by sections 8 and 40 of the Mental Treatment Act, 1945 , hereby makes the following regulations :--

1. These regulations may be cited as the Mental Treatment (Amendment) Regulations, 1949.

2. Article 50 of the Mental Treatment (Regulations) Order, 1946 (S. R. & O., 1946, No. 202) is hereby amended by the substitution, for paragraph (d) of the said Article, of the following paragraph :--

" (d) if the relatives of the patient fail within thirty-six hours of the death to give notice of their intention to arrange for the burial of the remains, or give notice refusing to make any such arrangements, or fail to make or carry out within a reasonable time any such arrangements the remains shall, unless otherwise dealt with in accordance with law be interred in an authorised place of burial in the presence of the Chaplain of the religious denomination to which the patient belonged and with the usual rites of that denomination."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twentieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-nine.

(Signed) NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.