Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Restriction on employment of male persons.

265.—(1) It shall not be lawful to employ a male person in the personal custody or restraint of a female patient in a mental institution.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the employment of a male person in the personal custody or restraint of a female patient in a mental institution on any occasion of such urgency as, in the judgment of the person in charge of the institution, renders the employment necessary, but in each such case the employment shall be reported to the Inspector of Mental Hospitals on his next visit to the institution and an entry of the employment shall be made at the time thereof in a book to be kept for that purpose in the institution.