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Friday, April 27, 1973
PRISON DEPARTMENT PSYCHIATRIC CENTRE AT SIU LAM
New Bill Widens Category Of People To Be Admitted
Amending legislation is to be introduced shortly to enable a
wider category of mentally unstable persons to be admitted to the Prisons
Department Psychiatric Centre at Siu Lam for detention, observation or
specialist treatment.
The Centre was set up in November last year as a permanent
institution to replace the temporary Psychiatric Observation Unit at
the Victoria Remand Centre and is at present in use for the observation
and treatment of people admitted to prison.
The aim of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 1973, published
in the Gazette today for general information, is to allow those who
presently may be admitted to a mental hospital under certain sections of
the Mental Health Ordinance and the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.
These include:
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Convicted persons, or persons against whom the facts of
an offence punishable by imprisonment have been proved.
Persons remanded under the Mental Health Ordinance to
a prison or mental hospital for observation, investigation
or treatment.
Persons remanded in custody by a court who, at the
time of remand, showed no sign of mental disorder, but
while in custody develop signs of mental disorder.
Accused persona in respect of whom a special verdict
of not guilty by reason of insanity or a finding of
disability has been returned.
/* Convicted