The Lunacy Regulation Act 1862
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Commissions of Lunacy and the Proceedings under the same, and to provide more effectually for the visiting of Persons found lunatic by Inquisition, and to make the other Provisions herein-after contained with respect to certain Officers in Lunacy, and otherwise: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assemb...