Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Particulars for determining if person is a chargeable patient.

231.—Where—

(a) a person is received into a district mental hospital, and

(b) the mental hospital authority maintaining the hospital do not know whether the person is or is not a chargeable patient, and

(c) the mental hospital authority are not the public assistance authority for the public assistance district in which the person ordinarily resided before his reception,

the mental hospital authority shall send particulars of the name and residence of the person to such public assistance authority and that authority shall thereupon send in the prescribed form to the mental hospital authority the particulars necessary to enable the mental hospital authority to determine whether the person is or is not a chargeable patient and, if he is a chargeable patient, what contribution is proper to be made by him or on his behalf towards the cost of the mental hospital assistance given to him.