(1)Where the Board of Control have, before the commencement of this Act, purported to make an order under subsection (2) of section eleven of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, providing for the continuance of any detention order, but the Board have failed to make the order within the time limited by the said section eleven, then, unless it is shown that the order purported to have been made under the said subsection (2) was not made in good faith, the detention order purported to have been continued shall be deemed not to have expired and to have been duly continued as if the order purporting to continue it had been made within the required time and otherwise in conformity with the provisions of the said section eleven.
(2)In this section the expression " detention order " means an order made under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, that a defective be sent to an institution for defectives, and the expression " institution for defectives " has the meaning assigned to it by that Act as amended by the Act of 1946.