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CAP. 136]

Mental Health

[1989 Ed.

section 45, 49, 54 or 54A or an order having the effect that a person shall be treated as if he were liable to be detained by an order under any of those sections; (Amended 37 of 1973 s. 2; 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"medical officer" means a registered medical practitioner in the full time employment of Government;

"medical superintendent" means the medical superintendent or an assistant medical superintendent of a mental hospital appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 4;

"mental disorder" means mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder or any other disorder or disability of mind; (Replaced 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"mental hospital" means any place declared to be a mental hospital in accordance with the provisions of section 3;

"mental hospital visitor" means a person appointed to be a mental hospital visitor in accordance with the provisions of section 5 while he is so appointed;

"patient" means a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder; (Replaced 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"patient under observation" means a person who is detained in a mental hospital in accordance with the provisions of section 31 or 32;

"prescribed form" means a form provided by regulations; (Amended 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"psychopathic disorder" means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including significant impairment of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned; (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"registered medical practitioner" means a person who is registered or who is deemed to be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161);

"Registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court;

"regulations" means regulations made under section 72; (Added 46 of 1988 s. 2)

"relative" in relation to a patient means any of the following persons being, in the case of the persons referred to in paragraphs (b) to (i) of this definition, persons of or above the age of 18 years—

(a) husband or wife, or reputed husband or wife who is living with the patient or, if the patient is for the time being an in-patient in a hospital or in the Correctional Services Department Psychiatric Centre, was so living when the patient was last residing at liberty out of a hospital or the Centre;

(b) son or daughter;

(c) father or mother;

(d) brother or sister;