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Censorship

of letters, etc.

Employment

of patients.

Possession

of articles wilbott authority.

Introduction af un- authorized articles

into centre.

Prohibition

of entry to a centre,

Appeal to Board

Hearing of appeal.

8.

A superintendent may open and examine any letter, postal packet, parcel or other matter which is delivered or left at a score addressed to a patient in the centre 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 packel, parcel or other matter and may delete in any letter any part thereof.

9.

A patient in a centre may be employed on such work in the centre as the superintendent may consider necessary or desirable.

10. No patient in a centre shall have in his possession, withou the authority of the superintendent, any article and any such article found in his possession may be confiscated by the superintendent.

11. (1) Any person who, without lawful authority, sends to, brings to, conveys or throws into or deposits in, a centre or conveys to any patient or deposits with a view to its coming into the possession of any patient, any money, clothing, food, drink, tobacco, letter, papa, book, tool or other article whatsoever, shall be guilty of an offence and | on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars,

(2) Any article so sent, brought, conveyed, thrown or deposited without lawful authority may be confiscated by the superintendent.

(3) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this regulation. the superintendent may require any person visiting a centre to permit himself to be searched.

12. Any person who enters a centre without lawful authority or excuse shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

13. If a notice of appeal in writing, made by a patient or by a visitor, is handed to or comes into the possession of a superintendent or of any other person employed in a centre, the superintendent shall forthwith cause such notice of appeal to be transmitted to the Chaimas of the Board,

14. (1) When the Chairman of the Board receives a notice of appeal in writing from a patient, from a visitor, or from a sufer- || intendent, he shall cause a meeting of the Board to be summonsed for

a date not more than fourteen days after the receipt of such appeal and shall cause such appeal to be heard at such meeting.

(2) Any meeting of the Board may be adjourned for any period or periods not exceeding in all twenty-eight days from the date when an appeal was first brought before the Board.

SCHEDULE.

FORM 1.

DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 14 of 1960).

Application for Admission to an Addiction Treatment Centre.

The Superintendent of

the Addiction Treatment Centre at

Hong Kong.

(Nams in Expin).

(Address).

[r. 2.]

1.....

)

[Name in Chinese characters, if in 513).

hereby apply, in accordance

with the provisions of section 7 of the Drug Addicts Treatment and Rehabilita- don Ordinance, 1960, for admission to the above-mentioned Addiction Treatment Centre.

1. I undertake thar-

() I shall remain and may be detained in the said centre or in any other centre to which I may be transferred if required by the superintendent of the centre, for a period not exceeding six months from the date of my first admission to the said centre in accordance with this application; (i) I shall submit myself to such treatment as may from time to time be prescribed by the superintendent of the centre in which I am detained; f) I shall chey all lawful orders given to me by the superintendent or

by any person authorized by the superintendent:

[

iv) if required by the superintendent, I shall leave the centre in which

1 am detained, within forty-eight hours of being so required;

may be visited only by such persons as are permitted by the superintendent; and

(D) it given leave of absence by the superintendent 1 shall return to the centre in which I was detained, on the expiry or determination of the period of leave of absence.

2. acknowledge that I may be detained against my will in the said catre or in any such centre to which I may be transferred, for a period not exceeding six months from the date of my first admission to a centre in accordance with this application and that I may be forcibly retaken by the eperlatendent or by any police officer if I absent myself from the centre in which I am detained, without the permission of the superintendent of the centre or if having been given leave of absence from a centre by the super- intendent, 1 fail to retum at the end or determination of the period of absence,

4. If required, I undertake to repay fo

the cost of my maintenance and treatment in such centre as I may be detained. accordance with such scale as has been shown to me before I completed this application or on such scale as may be prescribed from time to time,

Duted this

day of Interpreted to the said

by

und signed by him in the presence of

(Signature of Applicant).

19......*

'The Hong Kong Government or uuch ether person as muy be entided thereto.