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Power to make regulations

Cap. 39, s. 57 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The Minister may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes, (a) defining the duties of the Director of Health Services, medical officers, nurses, attendants and other servants and employees at the (b) regulating generally the administration of the Mental Hospital and making provision for the care and treatment of persons of unsound mind and mental defectives therein; (c) prescribing the fees which shall be paid by voluntary patients and the expenses of the maintenance and clothing of persons of unsound mind who are not paupers in accordance with this Act; and (d) prescribing the forms to be used for the purpose of giving information to the magistrate concerning persons believed to be of unsound mind, the certification of such persons, the warrant for conveying and holding a person adjudged to be of unsound mind, the order adjudging a person of unsound mind and all other forms necessary for proceedings to be taken under this Act. (2) Subject to subsection (1) of this section, power to make regulations conferred on the Minister under section 66 of this Act, shall include the power to make regulations for the Mental 28
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