Section 39
Member not to participate in meetings in certain cases.
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.
Any member having any direct or
indirect interest, whether pecuniary or otherwise, in any matter coming up for consideration at a meeting
of the Central Authority, shall, as soon as possible after the relevant circumstances have come to his
knowledge, disclose the nature of his interest at such meeting and such disclosure shall be recorded in
the proceedings of the Central Authority, and the member shall not take any part in any deliberation or
decision of the Authority with respect to that matter.