{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lunacy-regulation-ireland-act-1871/section-46.json",
  "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/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Cases in which reports shall not be confirmed without petition.",
  "text": "The reports of the master shall be brought before the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid, for confirmation, by petition, in each of the cases following :—\n1. Where the Lord Chancellor intrusted as aforesaid on referring a matter to the master to inquire and report so directs :\n2. Where a statement of objections is brought in and all the objections are not abandoned :\n3. Where the master, having regard to the special nature or circumstances of the case, as herein-before provided, so directs :\n4. Where no order is made on the report being submitted for confirmation without petition :\n5. Where it is therein-after otherwise specially provided :\nAnd in such other cases as are herein mentioned and as the Lord Chancellor shall from time to time by general order direct.",
  "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/46",
    "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."
}