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Paragraph 2 Defence Act 1842 (c.94)

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In section 15 of the Defence Act 1842—

(a)

after “nonage" in both places there shall be inserted “ or mental incapacity ”;

(b)

“or not of whole mind" shall be repealed;

(c)

for “out of prison, within this land, or of whole mind" there shall be substituted “ within this land ”.

(2)

In section 27 of that Act for “lunacy" there shall be substituted “ mental incapacity ”.