Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Burials.

107.—(1) A mental hospital authority or, in case of urgency, their resident medical superintendent may provide for the burial at any place within the mental hospital district of such authority of the body of a person who dies while being maintained as a chargeable patient in the mental hospital district of such authority.

(2) Where a person who is being maintained as a chargeable patient outside the mental hospital district of the mental hospital authority responsible for such maintenance dies, such authority may provide for the burial of the body of such person in a burial ground at a convenient distance from the place where the death occurred or may provide for the bringing of the body into their mental hospital district and its burial there.

(3) Where a mental hospital authority incur under this section expenses in relation to the body of a deceased person, they may obtain repayment of the expenses from the property of the deceased person or from any person who was liable to maintain him immediately before his death as if the expenses were the cost of mental hospital assistance given to the deceased person before his death.