Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Register of certain officers and servants.

65.—(1) A mental hospital authority shall maintain a register of the officers and servants employed by them who have the care or charge of patients in the usual course of their employment.

(2) A mental hospital authority shall, on the application of an officer or servant employed by them, inform him in writing whether his name is or is not entered in the register maintained under this section by them.

(3) A mental hospital authority shall keep affixed in a conspicuous position in each institution maintained by them a notice stating that, on the application of an officer or servant employed by them, they will inform him whether his name is or is not entered in the register maintained under this section by them.

(4) No name, other than the name of an officer or servant whose employment consists solely of the care or charge of patients, shall be entered in a register maintained under this section save with the consent of the Minister.

(5) No name shall be removed from a register maintained under this section save with the consent of the Minister.

(6) If an officer or servant of a mental hospital authority is aggrieved by their failure or refusal to enter his name in the register maintained by them under this section, he may complain to the Minister in writing and, if after consideration of the complaint, the Minister directs the authority to enter the name of the officer or servant in such register, they shall carry out such direction.