Mental Treatment Act, 1945
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Payment of cost of conveyance of voluntary patient receivable as chargeable patient. |
193.—(1) Where a person to be received under this Part of this Act in an approved institution will be received as a chargeable patient, the appropriate assistance officer shall defray the reasonable expenses of the conveyance of such person to the institution. | |
(2) Expenses defrayed under this section shall be recoverable under the Public Assistance Act, 1939 (No. 27 of 1939), by the public assistance authority concerned as if the expenses represented the cost of public assistance within the meaning of that Act given by such authority to the person conveyed. |