Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
The Judge, Master in Lunacy, or Magistrate or a court making an order in respect of an inebriate may in the same or any subsequent order direct that the expense of the care, charge, and maintenance of the inebriate be paid out of any property of the inebriate, and may fix the amounts to be so paid, and the amounts so fixed may be recovered from the inebriate in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the person under whose care, charge, or control the inebriate has been placed, or the owner of the licensed institution in which the inebriate is or has been detained, or when the inebriate is detained in a State institution, at the suit of the Minister.