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19 1945

MENTAL TREATMENT ACT, 1945

PART XIII.

Approved Institutions.

Approval by order of the Minister.

158. —(1) The Minister may by order (in this section referred to as an approval order) approve of any institution or premises as an institution or premises for the reception of persons as temporary patients, or for the reception of persons as voluntary patients, or for the reception of persons as temporary patients and the reception of persons as voluntary patients.

(2) An application for an approval order shall be made by the person carrying on the institution or premises in respect of which the order is sought in the prescribed form and manner and shall contain the prescribed particulars.

(3) Where application is made for an approval order, the Minister may require the applicant to furnish such plans and other documents relating to the institution or premises in respect of which the order is sought as the Minister considers necessary for the consideration of the application.

(4) The Minister may cause an inspection to be made of an institution or premises in respect of which an approval order is sought and a report on the inspection to be furnished to him.

(5) The Minister may attach such conditions as he thinks proper to an approval order.

(6) The Minister may by order revoke an approval order for any reason which he considers sufficient, including, in particular, any breach of a condition attached thereto.

Restriction on reception of persons as temporary and voluntary patients.

159. —(1) No person shall be received as a temporary patient in an institution or premises unless the institution or premises is or are approved of under this Part of this Act for the reception of temporary patients.

(2) No person shall be received as a voluntary patient in an institution or premises unless the institution or premises is or are approved of under this Part of this Act for the reception of voluntary patients.

(3) Where, in relation to an institution or premises which is not or are not a mental institution, there is a contravention of this section, the person carrying on the institution or premises shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day on which the offence is continued.

Register of patients in approved institution.

160. —There shall be kept, in respect of an approved institution, a register in the prescribed form in which the prescribed particulars in regard to every person received as a temporary patient and every person received as a voluntary patient in such institution shall be entered.

Regulations governing carrying on of approved institutions.

161.— (1) The Minister may make regulations—

(a) governing the carrying on of approved institutions with respect to persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients,

(b) prescribing the medical staffs to be employed in approved institutions in the treatment of persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients,

(c) prescribing records to be kept in approved institutions in relation to persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients.

(2) Regulations under this section may relate to all approved institutions, or to such of those institutions as belong to a particular class, or to a particular one or more of those institutions.

(3) Where, in relation to any approved institution, there is a contravention by act or omission of any regulation made under this section and applicable to such institution, the person carrying on the institution shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds, together with, where the offence is a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day on which the offence is continued.