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18 (3) All sums collected under this section shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Power to amend First Schedule

31. The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, amend, add to or vary the First Schedule.

Rules

32.—(1) The Minister may make rules for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make rules to prescribe—
 * (a) the conditions and circumstances under which mechanical means of restraint or seclusion may be applied to patients;
 * (b) the books and records to be kept in psychiatric institutions; and
 * (c) anything which may be prescribed or is required to be prescribed under this Act.

(3) The Minister may, in making any rules prescribe a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or both with which the contravention thereof shall be punishable.

Consequential and related amendments to other written laws

33. The provisions of the Acts specified in the first column of the Second Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the second column thereof.

Repeal and savings

34.—(1) Sections 1 and 2 of the Mental Disorders and Treatment Act (Cap. 178) are repealed.

(2) Part I of the Mental Disorders and Treatment Act and section 56 of that Act are repealed.

(3) Parts II and III (with the exception of section 56) of the Mental Disorders and Treatment Act and the Schedule to that Act are repealed.