Mental Treatment Act, 1945
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Cases of urgency, etc. |
176.—Where— | |
(a) it is desired, in a case of urgency, to have a person received and detained as a person of unsound mind and as a chargeable patient in the district mental hospital for the mental hospital district in which he is for the time being, not being the mental hospital district in which he ordinarily resides, or | ||
(b) it is desired, in a case where the mental hospital district in which a person ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained readily, to have such person received and detained as a person of unsound mind and as a chargeable patient in the district mental hospital for the mental hospital district in which he is for the time being, | ||
this Chapter of this Part of this Act shall, without prejudice to section 108 of this Act, be applicable for the purpose of having such person so received and detained in like manner as if he ordinarily resided in the mental hospital district and the dispensary district in which he is for the time being. |