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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1948 - SECT 73

Use of certain expressions.

73.(1) Whever in any enactment there occurs the expression "idiot,"
"imbecile," "mental defective," "mental defectiveness," "mental deficiency" or
other cognate expression, there shall be substituted the expression "person
suffering from arrested or incomplete development of mind," "person requiring
special care" "arrested or incomplete development of mind," or such other
cognate expression as by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act the
context may require.

(2) The Governor of Northern Ireland may by Order in Council modify the
wording of any enactment so far as is necessary to bring it into conformity
with the provisions of this Act.

S.74 rep. by 1961 c.15 (NI) s.116(2) sch.7. S.75 rep. by 1953 c.6 (NI) s.34

Part V (ss.7682) rep. by 1961 c.15 (NI) s.116(2) sch.7

Ss.100106 rep. by 1953 c.6 (NI) s.34; 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.; 1961 c.15
(NI) s.116(2) sch.7

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