Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Lodging of person not of unsound mind in mental institution.

261.—A person not of unsound mind may be lodged as a boarder in a mental institution, but where any such person is lodged as a boarder in the part of a mental institution used for the accommodation of persons of unsourd mind, the number of persons of unsound mind in the institution shall be determined for the purposes of this Act as if such person were a person of unsound mind.