Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 68A

Duty to give information to detained patients

The medical superintendent of every mental hospital, and the Superintendent of
the Correctional Services Psychiatric Centre, shall take such steps as are
reasonably practicable to ensure that every patient in the hospital or the
Centre, as the case may be, and a relative of every patient, understand-

   (a)  under which of the provisions of this Ordinance the patient is for the
        time being detained and the effect of that provision;

   (b)  what rights of applying to the tribunal are available to the patient
        in respect of his detention under that provision; and

   (c)  what rights are available to the patient to apply for his discharge,
        and those steps shall be taken as soon as practicable after the
        commencement of the patient's detention under the provision in
        question. (Added 46 of 1988 s. 27)