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Section 29

Person in charge of government psychiatric nursing home

of Mental Health Act 2001

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Section 29

(1)

The Minister shall appoint in respect of every government psychiatric nursing home—

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(a)

a medical officer, preferably with qualification or training and experience in psychiatry; or

(b)

a government staff nurse with qualification, training and experience in psychiatry, to be the person in charge of the government psychiatric nursing home.

(2)

The qualification, training and experience referred to in subsection (1) must be qualification, training and experience recognized by the Minister on the advice of the Director General.