Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Provision by two or more mental hospital authorities jointly of laboratory.

39.—(1) Two or more mental hospital authorities may, with the consent of the Minister, and shall, if the Minister so directs, provide and maintain jointly a laboratory for research in connection with mental and nervous diseases.

(2) Where a laboratory is to be provided under this section, the Minister shall make the appropriate order under this Act setting up a joint authority through whom the laboratory shall be managed.

(3) A joint authority through whom a laboratory is managed under this section on behalf of any mental hospital authorities may permit the services afforded by the laboratory to be available for a mental institution not maintained by any of those authorities and may make such charge as they consider reasonable where any service is availed of under such permission.