Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Restriction on reception of persons as temporary and voluntary patients.

159.—(1) No person shall be received as a temporary patient in an institution or premises unless the institution or premises is or are approved of under this Part of this Act for the reception of temporary patients.

(2) No person shall be received as a voluntary patient in an institution or premises unless the institution or premises is or are approved of under this Part of this Act for the reception of voluntary patients.

(3) Where, in relation to an institution or premises which is not or are not a mental institution, there is a contravention of this section, the person carrying on the institution or premises shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day on which the offence is continued.