Long Title
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
Part I PROVISIONS REGULATING PROCEEDINGS IN INQUIRIES INTO MENTAL DISORDERS
3 Court may order inquiry
4 Application by whom made
5 Provision as to notice of inquiry
6 Power to examine person alleged to be mentally disordered
7 Questions to be decided by court
8 Order as to costs
9 Appointment of committees
10 Powers of management of estate of mentally disordered person
11 Power of Registrar to receive proposal
12 Registrar to report to court
13 What relatives may attend proceedings
14 Orders may be made on petition
15 Dealing with mentally disordered person’s property for certain purposes
16 Committee to execute instruments
17 Performance of contract
18 Partner found to be mentally disordered
19 Disposal of business premises
20 Committee may dispose of lease
21 Transfer of stock of mentally disordered person
22 Transfer of property of mentally disordered person residing out of Singapore
23 Power to order maintenance without appointing committee
24 Temporary provision for maintenance of mentally disordered person
25 Order for detention of mentally disordered person
26 Annulling proceedings
27 Discharge of person found on inquiry not to be of unsound mind
Part II PROVISIONS FOR THE ADMISSION AND DETENTION OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND IN MENTAL HOSPITALS
28 Establishment of mental hospitals
29 Management of mental hospitals
30 Monthly inspection by visitors
31 Admission for treatment
32 Apprehension of persons of unsound mind
33 Provision in case of cruel treatment or neglect of persons of unsound mind
34 Person of unsound mind may be referred to mental hospital
35 General provisions as to admissions for treatment
36 Prohibition
37 Discharge by superintendent or psychiatrist
38 Visitors to apply for Magistrate’s order of detention
39 Order of discharge by visitors
40 Temporary absence from hospital
41 Removal of patients from one hospital to another
42 Removal of patients from Singapore
43 Contents of order
44 Return to Singapore
45 Reception of persons of unsound mind into Singapore from elsewhere
46 Persons received into Singapore from elsewhere to be subject to local law
47 Amendment of orders
48 Order and certificate justify detention and recapture
49 Application of property in possession of person of unsound mind found wandering
50 Application for order for the payment of costs of maintenance
51 Order of court and enforcement thereof
52 Saving of liability of relatives
53 Offences against patients
Part III GENERAL PROVISIONS
54 Construction of laws
55 Medical orders or certificates
56 Copy of reception order to be sent to the person in charge of the mental hospital
57 Protection of persons enforcing the Act
58 Penalty for improper reception or detention
59 Sums payable by the Government to persons of unsound mind
60 Order for payment of cost of maintenance
61 Saving of powers
62 Rules
THE SCHEDULE
Legislative History
