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MENTAL HEALTH (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 46 OF 1988

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L.S.

I assent.

Ord. No. 46/88

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David WILSON,

Governor.

23 June 1988

An Ordinance to amend the Mental Health Ordinance.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Mental Health (Amend- Short title and ment) Ordinance 1988.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette and different days may be appointed for different provisions.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by renumbering the existing section as subsection (1);

(b) in subsection (1)—–—

(i) by inserting before the definition of "certified patient" the following

""approved social worker" means a social worker approved for the purposes of this Ordinance by the Director of Social Welfare;";

(ii) by inserting after the definition of "certified patient" the following-

"chairman" means chairman of the tribunal;";

(iii) in the definition of "guardian" by inserting after "Social Welfare" the following-

“and in relation to a person received into guardianship pursuant to an application under section 33, the person in whom the powers specified in section 34(1) are vested";

commencement.

Amendment of section 2.

(Cap. 136.)