| Journal Call no. | RC321.J68 |
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| Author | Cheung, H. K. |
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| Article Title | The new mental health ordinance 1996 to 1997 : a reference guide for physicians and mental health workers / H.K. Cheung. |
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| Is Part Of | Hong Kong journal of psychiatry ; v.10, no.1, Mar 2000, p.3-13, illus. |
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| Abstract | The multifarious amendments to the Mental Health Ordinance of Hong Kong in 1996 to 1997 can be conceptualised into two main themes. Firstly, to facilitate mentally incapacitated persons in obtaining the treatment and supervision they need: (a) expanded definition of relative; (b) increased powers of the court in managing their property and affairs; (c) introduction of a guardianship order and supervision and treatment order; (d) increased powers of the guardian; and (e) statutory recognition of the physician's power in providing medical treatment without consent to mentally incompetent adults. Secondly, to protect mentally incapacitated persons from undue control under the Mental Health Ordinance: (a) re-definition of mental handicap from mental disorder; (b) offenders found unfit to plead or not guilty by reason of insanity need not automatically be locked up under hospital order; (c) creation of a guardianship board; (d) specification of special treatments so that these cannot be performed for mentally incompetent adults without court approval; and (e) further safeguards on the human rights of inmates of mental hospitals. |
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