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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, Vol. 2: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology With the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland
Amendment Orders and Certificates. - (sec. 34) Orders and certificates, if in any respect incorrect or defective, may be amended within fourteen days next after the reception of the patient with the sanction of one of the commissioners and (in the case of a private patient) the consent of the judicial authority by whom the order for the reception of the lunatic may have been signed, and if the com missioners deem any such certificate to be incorrect or defective, if it be not amended to their satisfaction within fourteen days, any two of them may, if they think fit, make an order for the patient's discharge.
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