Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008

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1 Short title and commencement

3 Designated psychiatric institutions

4 Management of psychiatric institutions

5 Inspection by visitors

6 Admission for treatment

7 Apprehension of mentally disordered person

8 Ill-treatment or neglect of mentally disordered person

9 Mentally disordered person may be referred to psychiatric institution

10 General provisions as to admission and detention for treatment

12 Discharge by principal officer or psychiatrist

13 Visitors to apply for Magistrate’s order of detention

14 Discharge by visitors

15 Temporary absence from psychiatric institution

16 Removal of patient from one psychiatric institution to another

17 Removal of patient from Singapore

18 Contents of order

19 Return to Singapore

20 Application for order for payment of cost of maintenance

21 Saving of liability of relatives

22 Offences against patients

23 Construction of laws

24 Order or certificate

25 Protection of person enforcing Act

26 Penalty for improper reception or detention

27 Sum payable by Government to mentally disordered person

28 Order for payment of cost of maintenance

29 Mental Capacity Act matters

30 Composition of offences

31 Power to amend First Schedule

33 Consequential and related amendments to other written laws

34 Repeal and savings

Mentally disordered person may be referred to psychiatric institution

9. Where a medical practitioner has under his care a person believed to be mentally disordered or to require psychiatric treatment, he may send the person to a designated medical practitioner at a psychiatric institution for treatment and that designated medical practitioner may thereafter act in accordance with section 10.

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