Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Notice of recovery of person detained as chargeable patient.

218.—(1) Where the person in charge of a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority is satisfied that a person detained therein as a chargeable patient has recovered, he shall give notice to that effect to such relative (if aware of any) of the person detained as he thinks proper, and the notice shall contain an intimation that, unless the person detained is removed before a specified date not earlier than seven days after the date on which the notice is given, he will be discharged.

(2) If a person in respect of whom a notice under this section is given is not removed from the institution in which he is detained before the date specified in that behalf in the notice, he shall be discharged.

(3) A notice under this section in relation to a person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority shall not be given save with the approval of the authority.

(4) Where, consequent upon a notice under this section, a person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority is removed or discharged, the authority may, if they so think proper, pay to or in respect of him such sum as they consider reasonable towards his travelling expenses on his journey to his home.