Mental Health Ordinance
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Mental Health Legislation, Regulations and Implementation Guides
Hong Kong SAR
1 February 1999
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Government of Hong Kong
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To amend and consolidate the law relating to mental incapacity and the care and supervision of mentally incapacitated persons, to provide for the management of the property and affairs of mentally incapacitated persons, to provide for the reception, detention and treatment of mentally incapacitated persons who are mentally disordered persons or patients, to provide for the guardianship of such patients and for mentally incapacitated persons generally, to make provision for the giving of consent for treatment or special treatment in respect of mentally incapacitated persons who have attained 18 years of age, to provide for the removal of objectionable terminology relating to mental incapacity in other statutory provisions and to provide for matters incidental or consequential thereto.Content
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