Mental Treatment Act, 1945
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Discharge of person detained as chargeable patient where no relative known. |
219.—(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, but such person in charge is not aware of any relative of the person detained to whom notice might be given under section 218 of this Act, the person detained shall be discharged. | |
(2) A person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority shall not be discharged under this section save with the approval of the authority. | ||
(3) Where a person detained in a district mental hospital or other institution maintained by a mental hospital authority is discharged under this section, 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. |