Mental Treatment Act, 1945

PART II.

The Inspector of Mental Hospitals and Assistant Inspectors of Mental Hospitals.

The Inspector of Mental Hospitals.

12.—(1) There shall be an inspector of mental institutions for the purposes of this Act and such inspector shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the Inspector of Mental Hospitals.

(2) The Minister shall from time to time appoint a registered medical practitioner to be the Inspector of Mental Hospitals.

(3) Where any person held, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act, the office of inspector of lunatics under the law then in force, such person shall be deemed to have been appointed by the Minister immediately upon the commencement of this Part of this Act to be the Inspector of Mental Hospitals.

(4) The Minister may appoint any of his medical inspectors to act as substitute for the Inspector of Mental Hospitals during any particular period or for any particular purpose and, during that period or for that purpose (as the case may be), the person so appointed shall be regarded as being the Inspector of Mental Hospitals and every reference in this Act to the Inspector of Mental Hospitals shall be construed accordingly.