Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Restriction on erecting institution to be maintained by mental hospital authority, etc.

35.—A proposal for the erection at a cost exceeding five hundred pounds of an institution to be maintained by a mental hospital authority or for the restoration, enlargement, or other alteration at such a cost of an institution maintained by a mental hospital authority shall not be carried out unless and until the plan or specification relating to the proposal is approved of by the Minister nor save in accordance with the directions given by the Minister from time to time.