Section 104
Persons in custodial institutions.
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.
(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.
(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.