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The Court of Wards Act, 1879

( ACT NO. IX OF 1879 )

Powers and duties of Courts when inquiry is instituted under section 32
34. When any inquiry is instituted by a Civil Court under section 32, 1[* * *] such Court shall, for the purposes of making such inquiry, have the powers conferred, and proceed in the manner prescribed, by the Lunacy Act, 1912, with respect to the inquiries directed to be made by the said Act.
 
 
 
 
The Civil Court shall transmit to the Court of Wards a copy of the order made on each such inquiry; and the Court of Wards shall thereupon in case the proprietor has been found by the Civil Court to be incapable as aforesaid, make such order, consistent with this Act, as it shall think fit.
 
 
 
 
The Civil Court shall have, with reference to proprietors who have been adjudged to be incapable as aforesaid, the same powers as are conferred on a Civil Court by section 82 of the Lunacy Act, 1912 with reference to persons adjudged to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing their affairs.

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