Mental Health Act · s 69

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s 69Sums payable by Government to mentally disordered person

(1)

Where any sum is payable in respect of pay, pension, gratuity or other similar allowance to any person by the Government, and that person is found under this Act to be a mentally disordered person, any public servant authorised to make such payment shall pay —

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(a)

so much of that sum as he considers fit to the person having charge of the mentally disordered person for purposes of the maintenance of the mentally disordered person; and

(b)

the surplus or such part of the surplus, if any, as he considers fit, for the maintenance of the members of the family of the mentally disordered person who are dependent on him for maintenance.

(2)

Any person having charge of the mentally disordered person who fails to comply with or contravenes subsection (1)(a) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or both.