{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871/section-19",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/22",
  "legislation_title": "Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Inquiry not to be carried back, except under special order.",
  "text": "The inquiry, whether with or without a jury, shall, as far as relates to the state of mind of the alleged lunatic, be confined to the question whether or not the alleged lunatic is of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property at the time of the inquiry, except where the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid under special circumstances shall direct that there be also an inquiry from what time the alleged lunatic has been of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property, or shall direct that there be also an inquiry whether or not the alleged lunatic was of unsound mind and incapable of managing his person or property at a previous time specified, and thenceforth down to the time of the inquiry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/22/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:53.499337+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}