Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 5

Appointment and duties of visitors

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 60 of 2000 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive may appoint mental hospital visitors for every
mental hospital. (Amended 60 of 2000 s. 3)

(2) Two or more mental hospital visitors appointed in accordance with
subsection (1) shall once at least in every month, together inspect every part
of the mental hospital of which they are mental hospital  visitors and shall
see and examine so far as circumstances permit, every patient therein and
shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose any remarks which they may
deem proper in regard to the management and condition of the mental hospital
and the patients therein. (Amended 46 of 1988 s.3)