Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 44G

Obligatory requirements as to medical treatment

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) A supervision and treatment order shall include a requirement that the
supervised person shall submit, during the whole or part of such period as
specified in the order, to treatment (which may include residential treatment
in a hospital) by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner
(or other appropriately qualified person) with a view to the improvement of
his mental incapacity. (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 37)

(2) When the supervised person is under treatment as a residential patient in
a mental hospital, the supervision and treatment order shall be suspended
until the supervised person is discharged from that hospital. (Part IIIB added
38 of 1996 s. 2)