PART II
ADMISSION AND DETENTION OF MENTALLY DISORDERED PERSONS IN PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONS
Designated psychiatric institutions
3. The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, designate any hospital or any part of a hospital to be a psychiatric institution for the detention or treatment of mentally disordered persons under this Act.
Management of psychiatric institutions
4.—(1) The management of every psychiatric institution and the care and custody of its patients shall be regulated according to such rules as shall from time to time be made under this Act by the Minister.
(2) The Minister shall appoint for every psychiatric institution not fewer than 12 visitors, 6 of whom shall be medical practitioners.
Inspection by visitors
5.—(1) Two or more visitors, one of whom shall be a medical practitioner, shall—
- (a) at least once every 3 months, together inspect any part of any psychiatric institution of which they are visitors;
- (b) see and examine, as far as circumstances will permit, any patient therein and the order for the admission of every patient admitted since the last visitation of the visitors; and
- (c) report to the Director on such matters as they may consider proper in regard to the management and condition of the psychiatric institution and the patients therein.
(2) The Director may direct one or more visitors to inspect any psychiatric institution and to report to him on such matters as he may consider proper in regard to the management and condition of the psychiatric institution and the patients therein.
