Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Regulations governing carrying on of private institution, etc.

132.—(1) The Minister may make regulations—

(a) governing the carrying on of private institutions registered in the register,

(b) prescribing the medical staffs to be employed in connection with such institutions,

(c) prescribing records to be kept in respect of such institutions.

(2) Regulations under this section may relate to all private institutions registered in the register, or to such of those institutions as belong to a particular class, or to a particular one or more of those institutions.

(3) Where, in relation to any private institution registered in the register, there is a contravention by act or omission of any regulation made under this section and applicable to such institution, the registered proprietor shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds, together with, where the offence is a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day on which the offence is continued.