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Mental Health Act, 1987 Section 79

Title: Application to District Court for Payment of Cost of Maintenance out of Estate of Mentally Ill Person or from a Person Legally Bound to Maintain Him

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....time being, in force, may make an application to the District Court within whose jurisdiction the estate of the mentally ill person is situate or the person legally bound to maintain the mentally ill person and having the means therefor resides; for an order authorising it (o apply the estate of the mentally ill person to the cost of maintenance or, as the case may be, directing the person legally bound to maintain the menially ill person and having themeans therefor to bear the cost of maintenance of such mentally ill person. (2) An order made by the District Court under sub-section (I) shall be enforced in the same manner, shall have the same force and effect and be subject to appeal, as a decree made by such Court in a suit in respect of the property or person mentioned therein,

Mental Health Act, 1987 Section 80

Title: Persons Legally Bound to Maintain Mentally Ill Person Not Absolved from Such Liability

State: Central

Year: 1987

Nothing contained in the foregoing provisions shall be deemed to absolve a person legally bound to maintain a mentally ill person from maintaining such mentally ill person.

Mental Health Act, 1987 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Mental Health Act, 1987. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different States and for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any provision to the commencement of this Act in a State shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in that State. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "cost of maintenance", in relation to a mentally ill person admitted in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, shall mean the cost of such items as the State Government may, by general or special order, specify in this behalf; (b) "District Court" means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other area the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any other civil court which the State Government may, by notification, specify as the Court.....

Mental Health Act, 1987 Part IV

Title: Removal

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....is, in the opinion of the Disirict Courl, of such a nalure as ought to be performed, the Disirict Court may direct the manager appointed under this Act to perform such contract and to do such other acts in fulfilment of the contract as the Court considers necessary and thereupon the manager shall be bound to act accordingly. Section 63 - Disposal of business premises Where a mentally ill person had been engaged in business before he became menially ill, the District Court may, it" il appears to be for the benefit of the mentally ill person to dispose of his business premises, direct the manager appointed under this Act in relation to the property of such person to sell and dispose of such premises and to apply the sale proceeds thereof in such manner as the District Court may direct and thereupon the manager shall be bound to act accordingly. Section 64 - Manager may dispose of leases Where a mentally ill person is entitled to a lease or underlease, and it appears to the manager appointed under this Act in relation to the property of such person that it would be for thebenefit of the mentally ill person to dispose of such lease or underlease, such manager may, after.....

Mental Health Act, 1987 Chapter VII

Title: Liability to Meet Cost of Maintenance of Mentally Ill Persons Detained in Psychiatric Hospital or Psychiatric Nursing Home

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....or the person legally bound to maintain the mentally ill person and having the means therefor resides; for an order authorising it (o apply the estate of the mentally ill person to the cost of maintenance or, as the case may be, directing the person legally bound to maintain the menially ill person and having themeans therefor to bear the cost of maintenance of such mentally ill person. (2) An order made by the District Court under sub-section (I) shall be enforced in the same manner, shall have the same force and effect and be subject to appeal, as a decree made by such Court in a suit in respect of the property or person mentioned therein, Section 80 - Persons legally bound to maintain mentally ill person not absolved from such liability Nothing contained in the foregoing provisions shall be deemed to absolve a person legally bound to maintain a mentally ill person from maintaining such mentally ill person.

Mental Health Act, 1987 Chapter IV

Title: Admission and Detention in Psychiatric Hospital, or Psychiatric Nursing Home

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....minor as a voluntary patient. Section 17 - Admission of, and regulation with respect to, voluntary patients (1) On receipt of a request under section 15 or section 16, the medical officer in charge shall make such inquiry as he may deem fit within a period not exceeding twenty-four hours and if satisfied that the applicant or, as the case may be, the minor requires treatment as an inpatient in the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, he may admit therein such applicant or, as the case may be, minor as a voluntary patient. (2) Every voluntary patient admitted to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home shall be bound to abide by such regulations as may be made by the medical officer in charge or the licensee of the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home. Section 18 - Discharge of voluntary patients (1) The medical officer in-charge of a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home shall, on a request made in that behalf,-- (a) by any voluntary patient; and (b) by the guardian of the patient, if he is a minor voluntary patient, discharge, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) and within twenty-four hours of the receipt of.....

Mental Health Act, 1987 Part II

Title: Reception Orders

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....practitioner in theservice of Government. Section 21 - Form and contents of medical certificates Every medical certificate referred to in sub-section (6) of section 20 shall contain a statement,-- (a) that each of the medical practitioners referred to in that sub-section has independently examined the alleged mentally ill person and has formed his opinion on the basis of his own observations and from the particulars communicated to him; and (b) that in the opinion of each such medical practitioner the alleged mentally ill person is suffering from mental disorder of such a nature and degree as to warrant the detention of such person in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home and that such detention is necessary in the interests of the health and personal safety of that person or for the protection of others. Section 22 - Procedure upon application for reception order (1) On receipt of an application under sub-section (2) of section 20, the Magistrate may make a reception order, if he is satisfied that-- (i) the mentally ill person is suffering from mental disorder of such a nature and degree that it is necessary todetain him in a psychiatric hospital or.....

Mental Health Act, 1987 Section 25

Title: Order in Case of Mentally Ill Person Cruelly Treated or Not Under Proper Care and Control

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....proper care and control, or is ill-treated or neglected by any relative or other person having charge of such menially ill person, may report the fact to the Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the mentally ill person resides. (3) If it appears to the Magistrate, on the report of a police officer or on the report or information derived from any other person, or otherwise that any mentally ill person within the local limits of his jurisdiction is not under proper care and control, or is ill -treated or neglected by any relative or other person having the charge of such mentally ill person, the Magistrate may cause the mentally ill person to be produced before him, and summon such relative or other person who is, or who ought to be in charge of, such mentally ill person. (4) If such relative or any other person is legally bound to maintain the mentally ill person, the Magistrate may, by order, require the relative or the other person to" take proper care of such mentally ill person and where such relative or other person wilfully neglects to comply with the said order, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees (5) If.....

Mental Health Act, 1987 Chapter VI

Title: Judicial Inquisition Regarding Alleged Mentally Ill Person Possessing Property,custody of His Person and Management of His Property

State: Central

Year: 1987

..... (1) Where the mentally ill person is incapable of taking care of himself, the District Court or, where a direction has been issued under sub-section (2) of section 54, the Collector of the District, may appoint any suitable person to be his guardian. (2) In the discharge of his functions under sub-section (1), the Collector shall be subject to the supervision and control of the State Government or of any authority appointed by it in that behalf. Section 54 - Appointment of manager for management of property of mentally ill person (1) Where the property of the mentally ill person who is incapable of managing it is such as can be taken charge of by a Court of Wards under any law for the time being in force, the District Court shall authorise the Court of Wards to take charge of such property, and thereupon notwithstanding anything contained in such law, the Court of Wards shall assume the management of such property in accordance with that law. (2) Where the property of the mentally ill person consists in whole or in part of land or of any interest in land which cannot be taken charge of by the Court of Wards, the District Court may, after obtaining the consent of.....

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1987

.....but not defined in this Act and defined in the Code shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Code. (2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law or the relevant provision of the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. SECTION 03: PUNISHMENT FOR TERRORIST ACTS (1) Whoever with intent to overawe the Government as by law established or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people or to alienate any section of the people or to adversely affect the harmony amongst different sections of the people does any act or thing by using bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances or inflammable substances or fire-arms or other lethal weapons or poisons or noxious gases or other chemicals or by any other substances (whether biological or otherwise) of a hazardous nature in such a manner as to cause, or as is likely to cause, death of, or injuries to, any person or persons or loss of, or damage to, or destruction of, property or disruption of any supplies of services essential to.....