Mental Treatment Act, 1953

Cases of urgency, etc. (Chapter III, Part XIV of Principal Act).

4.—Where—

(a) it is desired, in a case of urgency, to have a person received and detained as a temporary patient and as a chargeable patient in an approved institution maintained by the mental hospital authority for the mental hospital district in which he is for the time being, not being the mental hospital district in which he ordinarily resides, or

(b) it is desired, in a case where the mental hospital district in which a person ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained readily, to have such person received and detained as a temporary patient and as a chargeable patient in an approved institution maintained by the mental hospital authority for the mental hospital district in which he is for the time being,

Chapter III of Part XIV of the Principal Act shall, without prejudice to section 108 of the Principal Act, be applicable for the purpose of having the person so received and detained in like manner as if he ordinarily resided in the mental hospital district and the dispensary district in which he is for the time being.