New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INEBRIATES ACT 1912 - SECT 9

9 Institutions for inebriates committed under sec 3

(1) The Governor may establish institutions for the reception, control, and treatment of inebriates who have, under section 3, been ordered to be placed in an institution established under this section, and of inebriates who, in pursuance of this Act or any Act hereby repealed, have been transferred to any such institution, and shall appoint for every such institution a superintendent and such officers as he may deem necessary.
Such officers shall be appointed in the same manner as officers in hospitals for the insane.
The establishing of any such institution, and a description of the land included within the limits thereof shall be notified in the Gazette.

(2) Such institutions shall, subject to this Act, be under the care, direction, and control of the Minister for Health.

(3) The enactments of the Lunacy Act 1898 , mentioned in Schedule 4, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such institutions, and to inebriates detained therein.
In so applying such enactment:
"hospital" or "hospital for the insane" shall be read as and mean an institution established under this section.
"insane patient", or "patient", shall be read as and mean an inebriate in any such institution.
"this Act" shall be taken to refer to the Inebriates Act 1912 .