1989 Ed.]
(e) grandparent;
(f) grandchild;
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(g) uncle or aunt;
(h) nephew or niece;
(i) any person with whom the patient ordinarily resides or, if the patient is for the time being an in-patient in a hospital or in the Correctional Services Department Psychiatric Centre, with whom he was ordinarily residing when last at liberty out of a hospital or the Centre; (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)
"transfer order" means an order issued in accordance with the provisions of section 52 or 53;
"tribunal" means the Mental Health Review Tribunal established under section 59A; (Replaced 46 of 1988 s. 2)
"voluntary patient" means a person who has been admitted into and is in a mental hospital in accordance with the provisions of section 30.
(2) Of the medical opinions given for the purposes of sections 32, 33 and 36, at least one shall be given by a practitioner approved for the purposes of this section by the Director of Hospital Services as having special experience in the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorder. (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2. Amended L.N. 76 of 1989)
(3) In deducing relationships for the purposes of this section, any relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood, an illegitimate person shall be treated as the legitimate child of his mother, and an adopted child as a child of the adopting parent. (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)
(4) Any function vested in the Director of Social Welfare by this Ordinance may be exercised on his behalf by any public officer authorized in that behalf by the Director of Social Welfare. (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)
(5) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as implying that a person may be dealt with under this Ordinance as suffering from mental disorder, or from any form of mental disorder described in that subsection, by reason only of promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy or dependence on alcohol or drugs. (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)
3. Declaration of mental hospitals
(1) The Governor may by order declare any place which is the property of the Government to be a mental hospital for the detention, custody, treatment and care of mentally disordered persons.
(2) The Governor on the application of the owner thereof, may, by order, declare any place which is not the property of the Government to be a mental hospital for the detention, custody, treatment and care of mentally disordered persons.
(3) Notification of every such order shall be published in the Gazette.