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The Mentally Incapacitated Persons Act replaces the Estates of the Mentally Incompetent Act in Alberta.1 “Person of unsound mind” is redefined as “a lunatic, a mentally incapacitated person or a mental defective.”2

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1. Amy Dyrbye, “Alberta replaces the “Estates of the Mentally Incompetent Act” with the “Mentally Incapacitated Persons Act”,” eugenicsarchive.ca, accessed June 4, 2018, http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/timeline/517349c7eed5c60000000056.

1. Ibid.

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