Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Voluntary patient becoming mentally incapable of expressing wishes.

195.—Where a person who is being treated in an approved institution as a voluntary patient becomes mentally incapable of expressing himself as willing or not willing to remain in the institution, he shall be discharged from the institution into the custody of such person as the person in charge of the institution approves of not later than twenty-eight days after becoming so incapable unless he sooner becomes capable of expressing himself as aforesaid or a reception order relating to him is obtained.