Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Production of list of patients, etc.

244.—(1) Where the Inspector of Mental Hospitals visits a mental institution, not being an institution for the reception of one patient only, there shall be presented to the Inspector—

(a) a list of the patients which shall, in the case of a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority, distinguish chargeable patients from others and which shall, in all cases, distinguish males from females and indicate the patients believed to be curable,

(b) all registers, books, records and other documents required by or under this Act to be kept in relation to the institution,

(c) all documents relating to any patient received in the institution since the next previous visit of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals,

(d) any other documents relating to a patient received at any time into the institution which the Inspector may call for.

(2) Where the Inspector of Mental Hospitals visits a mental institution for the reception of one patient only, there shall be presented to the Inspector—

(a) all registers, books, records, and other documents required by or under this Act to be kept in relation to the institution,

(b) if the patient has been received since the next previous visit of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, the documents authorising the reception,

(c) any other documents relating to the patient which the Inspector may call for.

(3) Where a book is presented under this section to the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, he shall certify on it that it has been so presented.