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Power to make regulations

Cap. 122, s. 29 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Ordinance into effect, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of this section, may make regulations relating to, (a) the reception, care and control of a person of unsound mind, whether so found by inquisition or not, in an institution or other suitable place and his transfer or discharge therefrom; (b) the powers of the person executing an (c) applications for traverse and supersede as of inquisitions and to new trials of the issue; (d) rescission of orders for commitment of a (e) the management, sale, mortgage or other disposition of the property of a person of (f) the provision for the maintenance of a person of unsound mind, or of members of his family dependent upon him for maintenance, where it appears to the court that there is reason to believe that the unsoundness of mind so found by inquisition is in its nature temporary; (g) the powers vested in a person of unsound mind in the character of trustee or guardian, or with regard to any necessary consent which a person of unsound mind is empowered to give; (h) temporary maintenance of a person of unsound mind or members of his family dependent upon him for maintenance, pending the appointment of committees; (i) the possession, sale and realisation of the property of a person of unsound mind which does not exceed in value the sum of two thousand dollars; (j) the making of vesting orders in the case of stock standing in the name of a person of unsound mind beneficially entitled thereto, or vested in a committee of the estate of a person of unsound mind in trust for the person of unsound mind or as a part of his property; (k) the power to vest the right to transfer stock and sue for chooses in action; (l) the powers and duties of a judicial authority in relation to the committal of a defective under Part III and the mode of his exercising and discharging them; 29 (m) the presentation and hearing of the petition for an order committing a defective to an institution, or placing him under supervision or guardianship, the variation of such orders and any other matter therewith connected; (n) the recovery of a contribution by a defective or any person liable to maintain him to the expenses of his maintenance in an institution; (o) the power to deal with defectives under and in accordance with Part III, including the right of visiting defectives; (p) the powers and duties of the Board.
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