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Section 81 - Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
81. Central Authority to appoint Expert Committee to prepare guidance document.-
(1) The Central Authority shall appoint an Expert Committee to prepare a guidance document for medical practitioners and mental health professionals, containing procedures for assessing, when necessary or the capacity of persons to make mental health care or treatment decisions.
(2) Every medical practitioner and mental health professional shall, while assessing capacity of a person to make mental healthcare or treatment decisions, comply with the guidance document referred to in sub-section (1) and follow the procedure specified therein.
Related Sections
- Section 76: Decisions of Authority and Board
- Section 38: Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of Central Authority
- Section 93: Transfer of persons with mental illness from one mental health establishment to another mental health establishment
- Section 67: Audit of mental health establishment
- Section 123: Power of State Authority to make regulations
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- Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015
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