Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871

49 Money orders to be acted upon by Accountant General as if drawn up by the Registrar of the Court of Chancery. Registrar to certify to Accountant General.

Where an order or a report confirmed as aforesaid relates to the payment, transfer, carrying over, or depositing of any cash, stock, funds, annuities, securities, or other effects to or into the name of or in the custody of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery to the credit of the matter of a lunatic, or to the payment, transfer, or carrying over or other disposal by the said Accountant General of any cash, stocks, funds, annuities, securities, or other effects standing in his name or deposited in his custody to the credit of the matter of a lunatic, or of any cash, stocks, funds, annuities, securities, or other effects to or in which a lunatic is entitled or beneficially interested, and which are not standing in trust in a cause or matter depending in the Court of Chancery, the said Accountant General and all other persons, and the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, shall act upon an office copy of such order purporting to be signed by the registrar and sealed with the seal of his office, or upon an office copy of the report confirmed as aforesaid, and thence receiving the operation of an order after the same has been filed as herein-before provided, in the same manner as if an order had been drawn up by the registrar of the Court of Chancery, and passed and entered in the Court of Chancery ; and the registrar in lunacy in case of an order, and the master in case of a report confirmed as aforesaid, shall certify under their hands respectively to the said Accountant General what stocks, funds, annuities, securities, or other effects are by virtue of any such order or report confirmed as aforesaid (as the case may be) to be sold, transferred, or delivered out.