Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Effect of chargeable patient reception order.

172.—(1) Where a chargeable patient reception order is made, any of the persons mentioned in sub-section (2) of this section may receive and take charge of the person to whom the order relates and detain him until his removal or discharge by proper authority or his death and, in case of his escape, retake him within twenty-eight days thereafter and again detain him as aforesaid.

(2) The persons entitled to receive, take charge of, detain, and retake a person under this section shall be—

(a) the mental hospital authority maintaining the district mental hospital mentioned in the relevant chargeable patient reception order,

(b) the resident medical superintendent of such hospital,

(c) the other officers and the servants of such hospital.