Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Visitation of private institution where two or more patients are kept.

129.—(1) The Minister may make regulations requiring the visitation by registered medical practitioners of private institutions registered in the register where two or more persons of unsound mind are taken care of and prescribing the duties to be performed by such practitioners, and any such regulations may relate to all those institutions, to such of those institutions as belong to a particular class, or to a particular one or more of those institutions.

(2) Where, in relation to a private institution registered in the register, there is a failure to comply with any regulation for the time being in force under this section and applicable to such institution, the registered proprietor shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.