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CAP. 136]

22 of 1936.

9 of 1950.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Persons of unsound mind.

Regulations.

Establish-

ment and management of mental hospitals.

Visitors of mental hospitals.

Mental Hospitals.

CHAPTER 136.

MENTAL HOSPITALS.

To consolidate and amend the law relating to the establishment of mental hospitals for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and others.

[15th May, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Mental Hospitals Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, "mental hospital" means any institution or place which the Governor may by notification in the Gazette declare to be a mental hospital for the deten- tion, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and includes the Government 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. The Governor in Council may by regulations prescribe or provide for-

(a) admission of patients to mental hospitals in cases

not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance; (b) detention and examination of patients in mental

hospitals and matters appertaining thereto;

(c) forms;

(d) any matter which he may consider desirable for the purpose of carrying cut the objects of this Ordinance.

5. The Governor may declare that certain institutions or places shall be mental hospitals for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and the Governor in Council may make regulations for the management and conduct of mental hospitals.

6. The Governor may appoint fit and proper persons to be visitors of any such mental hospitals. Such visitors

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