Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Direction not to supply intoxicants or narcotics to patient.

252.—(1) The person in charge of a mental institution may direct any person not to supply intoxicants or narcotics to any particular patient in the institution.

(2) Where a person to whom a direction is given under this section supplies intoxicants or narcotics in contravention of the direction, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.