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Tasmania - Legislation

The Mental Diseases Hospitals Act 1926 (1926 - 1938)

From
1926
To
1938
Categories
Amending Act
Website
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/tmdha192617gvn40365/

The Mental Diseases Hospitals Act 1926 also named 'An Act to amend the Mental Diseases Hospitals Act' (Act no. 17 Geo. V No.40) amended the Mental Hospitals Act 1858 (Act no. 22 Vict No. 22) empowering the court to transfer any assets or money from a person admitted to a Mental Diseases Hospital to their children as a form of maintenance. This act was repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1934 (25 Geo. V no.78) on 31 May 1938.

Sources used to compile this entry: Law Research Service, Melbourne Law School, Law Library, The University of Melbourne. 'Find and Connect Project - Tasmanian Legislation', 20 January 2014, held in the project files at the University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre.

Prepared by: Elizabeth Daniels