Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Application by relative or friend of person detained as chargeable patient to take care of such person.

220.—(1) Any relative or friend of a person detained as a chargeable patient in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority may apply to the person in charge of the institution to allow him to take care of the person detained and, upon such application, the person in charge of the institution may, if he so thinks fit and provided that he is satisfied that the person detained will be properly taken care of, discharge the person detained.

(2) A person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority shall not be discharged under this section save with the approval of the authority.