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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 93. The following Bill is published for general information—

C.S.O. 3153/26.

A BILL

[No. 39-9.4.36.—4.]

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Persons of unsound mind.

Regulations.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the establishment of asylums for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and others.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asylums Ordin- ance, 1936.

2. In this Ordinance, "asylum" means any institution or place which the Governor may declare to be an asylum for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and includes the Mental Hospital.

3. For the purposes of this Ordinance, every person shall be deemed to be of unsound mind who is so far deranged in mind as to render it either necessary or expedient that such person, either for his own sake or in the public interests, should be placed and kept under control.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes:-

(a) to regulate the admission of patients to asylums in cases not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance;

(b) to regulate the detention and examination of patients in asylums and matters appertaining thereto;

(c) to prescribe forms to be used for the purposes of this Ordinance;

(d) to provide for any matter which he may consider desitable for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Ordinance.

(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shail, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.