Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Auxiliary mental hospital.

22.—(1) A mental hospital authority may, and shall, if so directed by the Minister, provide and maintain a mental hospital, auxiliary to their district mental hospital, for the reception of patients who, not being dangerous to themselves or others, are certified by the resident medical superintendent of such district mental hospital not to require special care and treatment in a fully equipped mental hospital.

(2) An auxiliary mental hospital shall be either a separate hospital or, if the Minister so directs, a part of the relevant district mental hospital.