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Chapter:

136 PDFTitle:MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCEGazette Number:60 of 2000
Section:3Heading:Declaration of mental hospitalsVersion Date:01/07/1997

Remarks:

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 60 of 2000 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive may by order declare any place which is the property of the Government to be a mental hospital for the detention, custody, treatment and care of mentally disordered persons.
(2) The Chief Executive on the application of the owner thereof, may, by order, declare any place which is not the property of the Government to be a mental hospital for the detention, custody, treatment and care of mentally disordered persons.
(3) Notification of every such order shall be published in the Gazette.

(Amended 60 of 2000 s. 3)