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54. Construction of laws
Feedback & supportWhenever in any written law or other document whatsoever any reference to a lunatic or to lunacy or to a lunatic asylum or asylum or mental hospital is contained, that reference shall be read as a reference to a mentally disordered person or to a patient within the meaning of this Act or, as the case may be, to mental disorder, or to a mental hospital. [55
mentally disordered person
Defined · s 2
“mentally disordered person” means any person found by due course of law to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing himself or his affairs;