Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Regulations governing carrying on of approved institutions.

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

(a) governing the carrying on of approved institutions with respect to persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients,

(b) prescribing the medical staffs to be employed in approved institutions in the treatment of persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients,

(c) prescribing records to be kept in approved institutions in relation to persons received therein as temporary patients or voluntary patients.

(2) Regulations under this section may relate to all approved institutions, 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 approved institution, there is a contravention by act or omission of any regulation made under this section and applicable to such institution, the person carrying on the institution 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.