Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Arrangement for maintenance in institution not maintained by relevant mental hospital authority.

101.—(1) A mental hospital authority may, with the consent of the Minister, make and carry out an arrangement for the maintenance, in a special instituiton, of any class of their chargeable patients.

(2) The Minister may withdraw a consent given by him under sub-section (1) of this section and thereupon the arrangement to which the consent relates shall terminate and the mental hospital authority to whom the consent was given shall remove any patient, who is being maintained in pursuance of the arrangement in a special institution, from that institution.

(3) In this section, the expression “special institution” means any home, hospital, or other institution not maintained by the mental hospital authority making the relevant arrangement for maintenance and suitable for the treatment of the persons for whom such arrangement is made.