LawgistThe Mental Healthcare Act
104Persons in custodial institutions
(1) If it appears to the person in-charge of a State run custodial institution (including beggars homes, orphanages, women's protection homes and children homes) that any resident of the institution has, or is likely to have, a mental illness, then, he shall take such resident of the institution to the nearest mental health establishment run or funded by the appropriate Government for assessment and treatment, as necessary.
(2) The medical officer in-charge of a mental health establishment shall be responsible for assessment of the person with mental illness, and the treatment required by such persons shall be decided in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
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RESPONSIBILITIES OF OTHER AGENCIES
- 100 Duties of police officers in respect of persons with mental illness
- 101 Report to Magistrate of person with mental illness in private residence who is ill-treated or neglected
- 102 Conveying or admitting person with mental illness to mental health establishment by Magistrate
- 103 Prisoners with mental illness
- 104 Persons in custodial institutions
- 105 Question of mental illness in judicial process
