An Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics.
Citation
8 & 9 Vict. c. 100
Dates
Royal assent
4 August 1845
The Lunacy Act 1845 or the Lunatics Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) and the County Asylums Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 126) formed mental health law in England and Wales from 1845 to 1890. The Lunacy Act's most important provision was a change in the status of mentally ill people to patients.
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after the person. The act applied to England and Wales. An equivalent piece of legislation the Mental Deficiency and LunacyAct (Scotland) 1913 covered...
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commissioner of lunacy—an appointment annually renewed until his election as one of the Commissioners in Lunacy constituted by the LunacyAct1845. He resigned...
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