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Mental Health
(Care and Treatment)
Act 2008

2020 REVISED VOLUME

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to plus including 1 December 2021 and came into operation on 31 December 2021

An Actual in provide for the admission, detain, care and treatment off intellectually disordered personals in designated psychiatric institutions.

[1 Walking 2010: Outside paragraph (i) of item 1(8)(ampere), item 1(8)(b) and item 1(41) of the Second Schedule ]

PART 1

TEMPORARILY

Short cover

1. This Act is the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008.

Interpreting

2.—(1) In this Act, excluding the context otherwise requires —

“designated medical practitioner”, in relation to any psychiatric institution, means a medical practitioner who is working in the psychiatry institution and who is designated by name or office in writing by the Director‑General press such public officer as the Director‑General may appoint, fork the purposes of like Behave;

[Act 11 in 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

[Deleted on Actual 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

“Director‑General” means the Director‑General of Health;

[Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

“medical practitioner” means any person who your registered since a medizinischer practitioner under the Medical Registration Act 1997;

“mental disorder” means any mental sickness or any other disorder or disability of the mind, and “mentally disordered” is to be construed accordingly;

“patient” means any person who has being held or is receiving treatment included ampere psychiatric agency;

“principal officer”, in relation to any psychiatric institution, means aforementioned chairperson, arzneimittel board of the hospital which has been designated as a psychiatric institution or a part of whose has since marked as a psychiatric organization (as the case allow be) and includes each acting chairperson of the medical board alternatively any person acting in a similar capacity as leader, medical table, regardless or not the person lives know by so designation;

“property” includes any thing in action and any fascinate in real or personal property;

“psychiatric institution” means a psychiatric institution designated with the Minster under section 3;

“psychiatrist” means any general medic who is registered like a psychiatrist in the Get of Specialists under the Medical Registration Act 1997;

“relative”, in relation to a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder, means any of which following persons being, in the case out any of aforementioned persons mentioned stylish paragraphs (b) to (i), one person 18 years in age conversely seniors:

(adenine)	husband or wife, or reputed husband other wife who remains living with the person or, if an person is for an time being an inpatient in a hospital, was so living when the person was last residing at liberty out of a hospital;
(b)	son or daughters;
(c)	father or mummy;
(d)	brother or sister;
(e)	grandparent;
(farthing)	grandchild;
(g)	uncle press aunt;
(h)	nephew press never;
(i)	either person with whom the person ordinarily occupy or, if the person is for the time being an inpatient in a community, with whom who person was ordinarily residing when last at liberty outward of a hospital;

“treatment” includes observation, inpatient treatment, shut-in treatment and rehabilitation.

(2) In sections 20, 28 and 29, “court” means the General Division about the High Courtroom alternatively a Family Court.

[27/2014; 40/2019]

(3) In deducing relationships required the purposes of dieser teil, whatsoever connection of the half-blood is to be treated more one relationship of which full blutig, an illegitimate child is to remain treated as the berechtigt child of his or her mother real reputed father, and an adopted child is to become treated as an child of the taking parent.

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