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MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1960.
(No. 35 of 1960).
MENTAL HEALTH REGULATIONS, 1962.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 70 of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Mental Health Regula- Citation and tions, 1962, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for commence- the commencement of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960,
Tent.
2. The forms set forth in the Schedule are prescribed for the Forms.
Schedule. purposes of the Ordinance.
3. The medical superintendent of a mental hospital shall be Responsi responsible for the care and treatment of all patients in the mental bility
medicat bospital and for the maintenance of discipline and good order in the superin- hospital.
tendent.
4. A medical superintendent may refuse to permit any person Vilton and
telephone other than a mental hospital visitor to visit a patient or to permit a calls. patient to make or to receive any telephone call at a mental bospital.
of letters.
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5. (1) A medical superintendent may open and examine any Censorship letter, postal packet, parcel or other matter which is delivered to or left at a mental hospital addressed to a patient and may refuse to permit any such letter, postal packet, parcel or other matter to be delivered to a patient and may return to the sender, if known, any such letter, postal packet, parcel or other matter and may delete in any letter any part thereof.
(2) A medical superintendent may open and examine any letter which has been written by a patient and may refuse to permit any such letter to leave the mental hospital and may delete from any letter any part thereof:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any letter from a patient addressed to the Director of Medical and Health Services, to the Tribunal, to the Secretary of the Tribunal or to the Registrar of the Supreme Court.