Section 10
Duty to follow advance directive.
The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
About this Act
An Act to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
It shall be the duty of every medical officer in charge of a
mental health establishment and the psychiatrist in charge of a person's treatment to propose or give
treatment to a person with mental illness, in accordance with his valid advance directive, subject to
section 11.