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Part VI · Reception, Care, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Mentally Disordered Persons in Community Mental Health Centre

37. Community care treatment at community mental health centre

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(1)

An involuntary patient who has been discharged or granted leave of absence from a psychiatric hospital may be required by the Medical Director or the Visitors, as the case may be, to undergo community care treatment at a government community mental health centre or a gazetted private community mental health centre.

(2)

Any community mental health centre may provide community care treatment to voluntary and involuntary patients.

(3)

The community care treatment referred to in subsections (1)

and (2) shall be provided on an outpatient basis, and no patient shall be lodged in any part of a community mental health centre for more than twenty-four hours.

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Part IX

Quality of Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Services

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Part X

Proceedings in Inquiries Into Mental Disorder

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Part XI

Enforcement

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Part XII

General

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Schedules