County Lunatic Asylums (England) Act 1828
| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Act to amend the Laws for the Erection and Regulation of County Lunatic Asylums. And more effectually to provide for the care and maintenance of Pauper and Criminal Lunatics in England. |
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| Citation | 9 Geo. 4. c. 40 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 15 July 1828 |
| Commencement | 15 July 1828 |
| Repealed | 11 October 1832 |
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| Repealed by | County Asylums Act 1845 |
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Status: Repealed | |
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The County Lunatic Asylums (England) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 40), also known as the County Asylums Act 1828, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that addressed concerns with the administration of asylums and the slow creation of county asylums within Britain. It required magistrates to send annual records of admissions, discharges, and deaths to the Home Office; and allowed the Secretary of State to send a Visiting Justice to any county asylum, although the visitor couldn't intervene in how the asylum was run. It also allowed counties to borrow money to build an asylum, but it had to be paid back within 14 years of the initial loan. This was designed to incentivise counties to build asylums, but it did not make it compulsory, a continuation of the County Asylums Act 1808 (48 Geo. 3. c. 96). It also imposed the requirement of a residential medical officer, whose permission was necessary to justify the restraint of a patient.