Mental Hospitals.
shall be at liberty to enter any such mental hospital at all times and make such inquiry or examination therein as may be deemed necessary and shall make such reports to the Colonial Secretary as may be required by order of the Governor.
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mental hospital for observation.
7. (1) Upon the application, in the prescribed form, Removal to of any person who has reason to believe that some other person is of unsound mind, it shall be lawful for any magistrate or justice of the peace to make an order, in the prescribed form, authorizing the removal to a mental hospital, for the purpose of detention and observation during a period not exceeding seven days from and including the date of the order, of the person alleged to be of unsound mind.
(2) Every such order shall have the effect of authorizing the applicant, and every public officer, with such assistance in each case as may be desirable, to use such force as may be necessary in order to remove to the mental hospital the person alleged to be of unsound mind.
(3) Except in case of necessity, no such order shall be made until an attempt has been made by the applicant to communicate with some relative of the person in question if any such relative can be found in the Colony.
8. It shall be lawful for any medical practitioner in Detention for charge of any mental hospital to detain under observation observation. for seven days from and including the date of the order any person taken to such mental hospital under the provisions of section 7 or 12 and subject to the provisions of 1950, of the next following section to detain for the periods therein stated a person who has voluntarily submitted himself under that section for care and treatment.
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treatment.
9 of 1950,
9. (1) Any person not under the age of sixteen years Voluntary who is desirous of voluntarily submitting to treatment but whose mental condition may not be such as to justify the issue of a certificate of unsoundness of mind, may, on making an application in writing to the medical practitioner in charge of a mental hospital, in the discretion of such medical practitioner and on such conditions as he may think fit, be received into such mental hospital for care and treatment.