Admission of
temporary patient.
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(3) Not more than two extensions of not more than seven days each shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this section to any order made in accordance with the provisions of section 31.
(4) No person shall be detained in a mental hospital after the expiration of the period of any order made in accordance with the provisions of section 31 and of any extension thereto made in accord ance with the provisions of this section unless he has become a temporary patient or a voluntary patient.
33. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person who is suffering from mental disorder and is unft on account of his mental state to be admitted as a voluntary patient, may on application in writing in the prescribed form, in accordance with the provisions of this section, be received into and detained in a mental hospital as a temporary patient.
(2) An application under this section may be lodged with a medical superintendent by either the spouse or a relative of the person to whom it relates or, at the request or in the absence or minority or other incapacity of the spouse or a relative, by the Director of Social Welfare:
Provided that if an application is made by the Director of Social Welfare, such application shall be accompanied by a statement in writing, signed by the Director of Social Welfare, setting out the reason why the application is made by him and the circumstances in which he makes it.
(3) The application shall be accompanied by a recommendation in the prescribed form signed by a registered medical practitioner who bas examined the person to whom the application relates not more than twenty eight days before the date of the application and who, if practic- able, should be the registered medical practitioner usually attending the person to whom the application relates.
(4) Not more than five clear days before a registered medical practitioner completes a recommendation in accordance with the provt- sions of subsection (3) he shall have examined the person to whom the recommendation relates and he shall specify in the recommendation the date on which he examined the person and the grounds on which he bases his recommendation.
(5) An application duly completed in accordance with the provi sions of this section and lodged with a medical superintendent shall be sufficient authority-
(a) for the applicant or any person authorized by him to take the person to whom the application relates and to convey him to a mental hospital;
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(b) for the medical superintendent with whom the application is lodged and the medical superintendent of any mental hospital to which the person may be transferred to detain the person and to take charge of and to provide treatment for him and to transfer him to any other mental hospital and if necessary to retake him.
34. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not Detention
und this- receive treatment as a temporary patient in a mental hospital for more
charge of a than twelve months:
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Provided that where before the expiration of the period of twelve months the medical superintendent is of the opinion that the temporary patient will not recover within that period but that the carly recovery of the patient appears reasonably probable, on the application of one of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) of section 33, the medical superintendent may extend the period of twelve months by further periods of not more than six months each so that the total period of treatment of a person as a temporary patient shall not in any case exceed two years from the date of his first admission as a temporary patient.
(2) A medical superintendent may discharge a temporary patient at any time, after giving not less than seventy two hours notice in writing to one of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) of section 33 if he is of the opinion that the temporary patient should be discharged.
35. (1) Within two months of the reception of a person in a Visitors to i mental hospital as a temporary patient in accordance with the provisions temporary
patient, of section 33, the temporary patient shall be visited by not less than two mental hospital visitors appointed to the mental hospital.
(2) If a mental hospital visitor is of the opinion that it is proper that the temporary patient should continue to be detained as such, he shall sign and teave with the medical superintendent a statement to that effect in the prescribed form but if a mental hospital visitor is of the opinion that it is not proper that the temporary patient should continue to be detained, he, within forty eight hours of his departure from the mental hospital, shall send to the Director of Medical and Health Services a report stating his opinion and the grounds on which it is based together with such other observations as he thinks fit.
36, (1) If a patient under observation or a voluntary patient or Delzation of a temporary patient in a mental hospital has been examined by two certified puticats. registered medical practitioners, either separately or together and the two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion that the person is a mentally disordered person they may complete a certificate in the prescribed form and forward it to a magistrate and in the case of a temporary patient shall give notice of the signing of the certificate to