Act Number: 10

Act Name: The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017

Year: 2017

Enactment Date: 2017-04-07

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health and Family Welfare

Section 10: Duty to follow advance directive.
    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.
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