Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Power to order maintenance without appointing committee

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

If it appears to the Court, having regard to the situation and condition in
life of the mentally incapacitated person and his family and the other
circumstances of the case, to be expedient that his property should be made
available for his or their maintenance in a direct and inexpensive manner, the
Court may, instead of appointing a committee of the estate, order that the
property, if money, or, if of any other description, the produce thereof when
realized, be paid to such person as the Court may think fit to be applied for
the purpose aforesaid, and all payments so made shall be a good discharge to
the person making the same. (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 58)