Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Restriction on receptions under private patient reception orders.

179.—(1) No person shall be received under a private patient reception order as a person of unsound mind in a mental institution if the order has been made by or on the application of any of the following persons:—

(a) a member of the governing body of or the person carrying on or in charge of the institution;

(b) any person interested in the payments (if any) to be made on account of the taking care of the person proposed to be received;

(c) any registered medical practitioner who is a regular medical attendant at the institution;

(d) the husband or wife, father, step-father or father-in-law, mother, step-mother or mother-in-law, son, step-son or son-in-law, daughter, step-daughter or daughter-in-law, brother, step-brother or brother-in-law, sister, step-sister or sister-in-law, guardian or trustee, or partner or assistant of any of the persons mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs of this sub-section.

(2) In paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of this section, the reference to a member of the governing body of an institution does not include a reference to a member of a mental hospital authority.