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(2% of 1957).

Declaration of centres.

Appoint-

ment of superinten. dents, etc.

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"Board" means the Addiction Treatment Centre Appeal Board

appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 14;

"centre" means any institution declared to be an Addiction Treatment

Centre in accordance with the provisions of section 3:

"patient" means a person who is undergoing treatment in a centre or who has left the centre but is still legally liable to be detained in such centre;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made in accordance with

the provisions of section 21:

"registered medical practitioner" means a person who is registered or who is deemed to be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957; "superintendent" means the superintendent or an assistant superintendent of a centre appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 4.

"Visitor" means ac Addiction Treatment Centre Visitor appointed in

accordance with the provisions of section 5.

3. (1) The Governor may by onder declare any place which is the property of the Government to be an Addiction Treatment Ceatre for the detention, custody, treatment, care and rehabilitation of addicts. and may amend, alter or cancel any such order.

(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 an Addiction Treatment Centre for the detention, custody. treatment, care and rehabilitation of addicts upon such conditions as may be prescribed at as he may consider necessary and may amend, alter or cancel any such order.

(3) Notification of every such order and of any amendment or alteration thereto or cancellation thereof shall be published in the Gazette.

4. (1) The Governor may appoint any registered medical practi- tioner in the employment of Government to be a superintendent or an assistant superintendent of a centre.

(2) On the application of any registered medical practitioner not in the employment of Government, the Governor may appoint the registered medical practitioner to be the superintendent or an assistant superintendent of a centre.

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(3) Notification of every such appointment shall be published in the Gazerte,

5. (1) The Governor may appoint Addiction Treatment Centre Appoint Visitors for each centre.

(2) Notification of the appointment of every visitor shall be published in the Gazette.

(3) Two or more visitors appointed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) shall once at least in every month, together. inspect every part of the centre of which they are visitors and shall see so far as circumstances permit, every patient therein and the application and order, or the transfer order for the admission of every patient admitted since the last visitation of visitors and shall see, if they so require, the application and order or the transfer order for the admission of every other patient and shall cater in a book to be kept for that purpose any comment which they may deem proper on the management and condition of the centre and of the patients thercin.

(4) A copy of every comment entered in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) in respect of a centre which was declared in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 shall be sent by the superintendent to the Director of Medical and Health Services within forty-eight hours of the entry thereof in the book.

MEAL And duties of visitors.

G. A superintendent may delegate any of his powers and functions Delegation. under this Ordinance to any registered medical practitioner and may use and employ to carry out his functions under this Ordinance any person employed in the centre.

for treatment.

7. (1) If any person, or in the case of a person under the age Admission of sixteen years, his parent or guardian, is of the opinion that he. or such person, as the case may be, is an addict and should be receiving treatment for his addiction, and if he completes and lodges with the superintendent of a centre an application for admission to the centre in the prescribed form the superintendent may admit to the centre as a patient the person named in the application form.

(2) An application shall contain-

(a) an undertaking by the person completing the application form

that the person named in the application form-

(i) if required by the superintendent shall remain and may be detained in the centre or in any other centre to which he