Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Discontinuance of institution maintained by mental hospital authority.

42.—(1) The Minister, if he so thinks proper after the holding of an inquiry under this Act, may by order direct a mental hospital authority to discontinue as from a specified date any specified institution, not being a district mental hospital, for the time being maintained by them and may include in the order all such provisions as appear to him to be necessary and proper in relation to matters incidental to or consequential on the discontinuance of such institution.

(2) It shall be the duty of the mental hospital authority to whom an order under this section relates to comply with such order.