Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

INEBRIATES ACT, 1900 - SECT 2

(1)     A medical practitioner who is an applicant under this Act for an order in respect of an inebriate shall not sign a certificate under or for the purposes of this Act in respect of such inebriate.

If on the production of the certificate of a medical practitioner in respect of an inebriate it appears to the Judge, Master in Lunacy, or Magistrate that the said medical practitioner, his or her partner, assistant or near relative—

        (a)     is the superintendent or medical officer of any institution, or a regular professional attendant therein; or

        (b)     is wholly or in part the proprietor, licensee, mortgagee, or lessee of any institution; or

        (c)     is interested in the payments to be made by or on account of any inebriate received into any institution,

an order that the inebriate be placed in such institution shall not be made upon such certificate.

(2)     In subsection (1)—

“near relative”, in relation to a person, means a spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of the person.