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8 (2) It shall be the duty of every police officer to report to a Magistrate every such case of lack of proper care and control, ill-treatment or neglect as specified in subsection (1) which may come to his knowledge.

(3) Any police officer not below the rank of sergeant may visit any person supposed to be mentally disordered in the care of any relative or other person having the charge of him for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the person is under proper care and control or is ill-treated or neglected by any such relative or other person.

(4) Any relative or other person referred to in subsection (3) shall be legally bound to produce the person for the inspection of the police officer and in the event of his refusing to do so shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $4,000.

Mentally disordered person may be referred to psychiatric institution

9. Where a medical practitioner has under his care a person believed to be mentally disordered or to require psychiatric treatment, he may send the person to a designated medical practitioner at a psychiatric institution for treatment and that designated medical practitioner may thereafter act in accordance with section 10.

General provisions as to admission and detention for treatment

10.—(1) A designated medical practitioner at a psychiatric institution who has examined any person who is suffering from a mental disorder and is of the opinion that he should be treated, or continue to be treated, as an inpatient at the psychiatric institution may at any time sign an order in accordance with Form 1 in the First Schedule—
 * (a) for the admission of the person into the psychiatric institution for treatment; or
 * (b) in the case of an inpatient, for the detention and further treatment of the person,

and the person may be detained for a period of 72 hours commencing from the time the designated medical practitioner signed the order.

(2) A patient who has been admitted for treatment or detained for further treatment under an order made under subsection (1) may be detained for a further period of one month commencing from the expiration of the period of 72 hours referred to in that subsection if—