Reception of persons in asylum

Reception of persons in asylum.-

1. (1) No person other than a criminal lunatic or a lunatic so found by inquisition shall be received or detained

in an asylum without a reception'order save as provided

by sections 8 and 16 :

desirous of submitting himself ,to treatment.

1. (2) A boarder rccdved in an asylum under the proviso to sub- section
2. (1) shall not be detained in the asylum for more than twenty- four hours after he has given to the person in charge of the asylum

notice in writing of his desire to leave such asylum.