New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsA medical practitioner who is an applicant under this Act for an order in
respect of an inebriate shall not sign a certificate under or for the purposes
of this Act in respect of such inebriate.
If on the production of the certificate of a medical practitioner in respect
of an inebriate it appears to the Court, Judge, or Magistrate that the said
medical practitioner, or his father, brother, son, partner, or assistant:
(a) is the superintendent or medical officer of any institution, or a regular professional attendant therein, or
(b) is wholly or in part the proprietor, licensee, mortgagee, or lessee of any institution, or
(c) is interested in the payments to be made by or on account of any inebriate received into any institution,an order that the inebriate be placed in such institution shall not be made upon such certificate.