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10 of 1978
The Mental Health Amendment Act 10 of 1978 intends:
- to amend the Mental Health Act, 1973 [repealed in 2002], with regard to definitions; in order :
- to extend the category of persons with regard to whom an attorney-general is the official curator ad litem;
- to empower hospital boards to discharge a certain category of President's patient and to order that such patient be no longer treated as such;
- to do away with the necessity of obtaining a report from a hospital board prior to the discharge of a mentally ill prisoner; and
- to provide for consent in certain circimstances by other persons to medical treatment or surgical operation of certain mentally ill persons;
- for measures where the conditions of a conditional discharge are complied with or not complied with and for the review of such conditions; and
- for the delegation of powers and duties; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
10 March 1978
