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Section 93: Transfer of persons with mental illness from one mental health establishment to another mental health establishment.

The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017Central Act · Act 10 of 2017

(1) A person with mental illness admitted to a mental health establishment under section 87 or section 89 or section 90 or section 103, as the case may be, may subject to any general or special order of the Board be removed from such mental health establishment and admitted to another mental health establishment within the State or with the consent of the Central Authority to any mental health establishment in any other State:

Provided that no person with mental illness admitted to a mental health establishment under an order made in pursuance of an application made under this Act shall be so removed unless intimation and reasons for the transfer have been given to the person with mental illness and his nominated representative.

(2) The State Government may make such general or special order as it thinks fit directing the removal of any prisoner with mental illness from the place where he is for the time being detained, to any mental health establishment or other place of safe custody in the State or to any mental health establishment or other place of safe custody in any other State with the consent of the Government of that other State.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
Section93
Marginal noteTransfer of persons with mental illness from one mental health establishment to another mental health establishment.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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