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Admission of voluntary patients
Cap. 39, s. 42 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) If suitable accommodation is at any time available at the Mental Hospital, the Director of Health Services may receive as a voluntary patient any person of unsound mind or any other person suffering from mental neurosis due to alcohol, drugs, vice or any other cause for care and treatment on payment, or guarantee of payment by some responsible person, of such fees as may be prescribed.
(2) A person received as a voluntary patient under this section, shall remain for treatment in the Mental Hospital for a minimum period of one month and reasonable notice of his intended removal shall be given to the Director of Health
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