Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Application of this Act to existing patients.

262.—Every person who immediately before the commencement of this section was detained in any institution or place for the maintenance and treatment of persons of unsound mind shall, on and after the commencement of this section, be subject to the provisions of this Act and the documents authorising such detention shall, on and after the commencement of this section, be regarded as a reception order applied for by the relative or other person at whose instance he was originally detained.