New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Jurisdiction as to mentally disordered persons, etc

• The Court shall also have within New Zealand all the jurisdiction and control over the persons and estates of idiots, mentally disordered persons, and persons of unsound mind, and over the managers of such persons and estates respectively, as the Lord Chancellor of England, or any Judge or Judges of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice or of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, so far as the same may be applicable to the circumstances of New Zealand, has or have in England under the Sign-manual of Her Majesty or otherwise.

  Compare: 1882 No 29 s 17

  Section 17 was amended, as from 1 January 1970, by section 36(1)(b) Guardianship Amendment Act 1968 (1968 No 63) by omitting the word “infants”.

  Section 17 was amended, as from 1 January 1970, by section 36(1)(b) Guardianship Act 1968 (1968 No 63) by omitting the words “guardians and”.

  The words “mentally defective persons” were substituted for the words “lunatics”, as from 1 March 1912, pursuant to section 134 Mental Health Act 1911 (1911 No 6). Those words were in turn substituted by the words “mentally disordered persons”, as from 1 April 1970, pursuant to section 129(4) Mental Health Act 1969 (1969 No 16).

  The word “managers” was substituted for the word “committees”, as from 1 April 1970, pursuant to section 129(7) Mental Health Act 1969 (1969 No 16). See now section 117(3) Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 (1988 No 4).