Malaysia legislation
Section 92
Section 92
Power to make regulations
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) regulations may be made for all or any of the following purposes:
(a)
to prescribe the forms and certificates to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(b)
to prescribe the standards and specifications in respect of the sitting, design and construction of government or private psychiatric hospitals including gazetted private psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes or community mental health centres;
(c)
to prescribe the standards of accommodation, sanitation or other amenities in government or private psychiatric hospitals including gazetted private psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres;
(d)
to prescribe the standards of the apparatus, appliance, equipment, instrument, substance, furnishing, and other things to be provided by government or private psychiatric hospitals including gazetted private psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres;
(e)
to prescribe the standards for the maintenance, administration or staffing of, and the provisions of facilities and services by, government or private psychiatric hospitals including gazetted private psychiatric hospitals, private psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres;
(f)
to regulate the keeping of such books, records, registers or other documents or the furnishing of such reports or statistics as may be necessary for the purposes of this
Act;
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(g)
to prescribe the management, control, superintendence and care of government or private psychiatric hospitals including gazetted private psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres, including the functions, responsibilities, duties and powers of Medical Directors, Deputy
Medical Directors or persons in charge of the psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres;
(h)
to prescribe all matters relating to the rights and privileges of patients;
(i)
to prescribe all matters relating to the issue of communication by and with persons detained in psychiatric hospitals;
(j)
to prescribe the conditions and circumstances under which physical and chemical means of restraint or seclusion may be applied to persons detained in psychiatric hospitals;
(k)
to prescribe the duties and powers of, and the procedure to be followed by, the board;
(l)
to provide for acceptable quality assurance and quality control in respect of psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric nursing homes and community mental health centres;
(m)
to prescribe the type of unforeseeable or unanticipated incidents to be reported, the procedure for reporting, the manner of investigation to be conducted, the report and statistical data to be submitted;
(n)
to prescribe all matters relating to policy statements and matters relating to grievance mechanism;
(o)
to prescribe anything which is to be or which may be prescribed under this Act.
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