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(b) for enabling the tribunal to exclude members of the public, or any specified class of members of the public, from any proceedings of the tribunal, or to prohibit the publication of reports of any such proceedings or the names of any persons concerned in such proceedings;
(c) for regulating the circumstances in which, and the persons by whom, applicants and patients in respect of whom applications are made to a tribunal may, if not desiring to conduct their own case, be represented for the purposes of those applications;
(d) for regulating the methods by which information relevant to an application may be obtained by or furnished to the tribunal, and in particular for authorizing members of the tribunal, or any one or more of them, to visit and interview in private any patient by or in respect of whom an application has been made;
(e) for making available to any applicant, and to any patient in respect of whom an application is made to the tribunal, copies of any documents obtained by or furnished to the tribunal in connection with the application, and a statement of the substance of any oral information so obtained or furnished except where the tribunal considers it undesirable in the interests of the patient or for other special reasons;
(f) for requiring the tribunal, if so requested in accordance with the rules, to furnish such statements of the reasons for any decision given by the tribunal as may be prescribed by the rules, subject to any provision made by the rules for withholding such a statement from a patient or any other person in cases where the tribunal considers that furnishing it would be undesirable in the interests of the patient or for other special reasons;
(g) for conferring on the tribunal such ancillary powers as the Chief Justice thinks necessary for the purposes of the exercise of its functions under this Ordinance;
(h) for enabling any functions of the tribunal which relate to matters preliminary or incidental to an application to be performed by the chairman of the tribunal;
(i) for consolidating applications or restricting the number of applications under section 59B which may be made within any specified period.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to references to the tribunal as they apply in relation to applications to the tribunal by or in respect of patients.
(4) The rules may be so framed as to apply to all applications or references to the tribunal, or to applications or references of any specified class, and may make different provision in relation to different cases.
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44
CAP. 136]
Mental Health
[1989 Ed.
(b) for enabling the tribunal to exclude members of the public, or any specified class of members of the public, from any proceedings of the tribunal, or to prohibit the publication of reports of any such proceedings or the names of any persons concerned in such proceedings;
(c) for regulating the circumstances in which, and the persons by whom, applicants and patients in respect of whom applications are made to a tribunal may, if not desiring to conduct their own case, be represented for the purposes of those applications; (d) for regulating the methods by which information relevant to an application may be obtained by or furnished to the tribunal, and in particular for authorizing members of the tribunal, or any one or more of them, to visit and interview in private any patient by or in respect of whom an application has been made; (e) for making available to any applicant, and to any patient in respect of whom an application is made to the tribunal, copies of any documents obtained by or furnished to the tribunal in connection with the application, and a statement of the substance of any oral information so obtained or furnished except where the tribunal considers it undesirable in the interests of the patient or for other special reasons;
(f) for requiring the tribunal, if so requested in accordance with the rules, to furnish such statements of the reasons for any decision given by the tribunal as may be prescribed by the rules, subject to any provision made by the rules for withholding such a statement from a patient or any other person in cases where the tribunal considers that furnishing it would be undesirable in the interests of the patient or for other special reasons;
(g) for conferring on the tribunal such ancillary powers as the Chief Justice thinks necessary for the purposes of the exercise of its functions under this Ordinance;
(h) for enabling any functions of the tribunal which relate to matters preliminary or incidental to an application to be performed by the chairman of the tribunal;
(i) for consolidating applications or restricting the number of applications under section 59B which may be made within any specified period.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to references to the tribunal as they apply in relation to applications to the tribunal by or in respect of patients.
(4) The rules may be so framed as to apply to all applications or references to the tribunal, or to applications or references of any specified class, and may make different provision in relation to different cases.
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