Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Religious services and chaplains in institutions maintained by mental hospital authority.

104.—(1) The Minister shall by order make provision for the due performance of religious services and the affording of religious aid in district mental hospitals and other institutions maintained by mental hospital authorities.

(2) A mental hospital authority shall appoint in relation to every district mental hospital and other institution maintained by them suitable persons to hold office as chaplains thereto.

(3) An office of chaplain to which appointments are made under this section shall not be an office to which the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926), applies.