77. Regulations

to prescribe the standards and specifications in respect of the siting, design and construction of psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to prescribe the standards of the apparatus, appliance, equipment, instrument, substance, furnishing and other things to be provided by psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to prescribe the standards of accommodation, sanitation or other amenities in psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to prescribe the standards for the maintenance, administration or staffing of, and the provisions of facilities and services by, psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to provide for acceptable quality assurance and quality control in respect of psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to prescribe the management, control, superintendence and care of psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres, including the functions, responsibilities, duties and powers of officers in charge of the psychiatric facility, community psychiatric residence and community mental health centres;

to prescribe all matters relating to the rights and privileges of patients;

to prescribe all matters relating to the issue of communication by and with patients in psychiatric facility;

to prescribe the conditions and circumstances under which physical and chemical means of restraint or seclusion may be applied to patients in psychiatric facility;

to prescribe the appointment of members to, the constitution, duties and powers of, and the procedure to be followed by, a Board;

to prescribe the type of unforeseeable or unanticipated incidents to be reported, the procedure for reporting, the manner of investigation to be conducted, the report and statistical data to be submitted;

to prescribe all matters relating to policy statements and matters relating to grievance mechanism;

to regulate the keeping of such books, records, registers or other documents or the furnishing of such reports or statistics as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act;

to prescribe anything required to be or which may be prescribed under this Act.