40. Board to arrange roster for Visitors

(1)

Subject to subsection (3) or (4), as the case may be, the

Board, or if the Board so directs the Chairman, shall arrange a roster appointing three members of the Board to act in rotation for each month in the year; and references in this act to “Visitors” shall be construed as references to Visitors appointed under this section to be the Visitors for the current month.

(2)

Subject to this section, where a member appointed for any month is unable to act for that month or any part thereof, the

Chairman shall appoint another member in his place.

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(3)

The Visitors for a psychiatric hospital shall at all times consist of a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner, preferably a psychiatrist, who does not work in that hospital and two other persons, and one of such Visitors shall be a female person.

(4)

The Visitors for a psychiatric nursing home shall at all times consist of a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner, preferably a psychiatrist, and a government staff nurse or registered staff nurse who does not work in that nursing home or have patients in that nursing home and one other person, and one of such Visitors shall be a female person.

(5)

Except where the decision of the Visitors to recommend the discharge of a person confined under section 344 or 348 of the

Criminal Procedure Code or corresponding provisions of any other written law must be unanimous, the decision of the Visitors on any other matter before them may be unanimous or by a majority consisting of the concurring opinions of two Visitors.

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Part VIII

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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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