BILL No. 60 OF 1925. A BILL TO AMEND THE MENTAL DISEASES ACT. NOTE. This· BilI- (

a) provides for the conveyance to a hospital of persons who have been committed thereto by the certificate of two medical practitioners; and (

b) gives power to the Minister of Health to· have per­ sons submitted to a hospital for a period of not more than thirty days for observation as to their mental condition. WALTER S. SCOTT, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill and is offered merely as a. partial explanation of some of its provisions.) BILL No. 60 of 1925.

An Act to amend The Mental Diseases Act. (Assented to • 1925.) H IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Mental D'iseases Act Amenclnwnt Act, 1925." 2. The Mental Diseases Act, being

chapter of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended as to

section 2b by adding as subsection (4a) thereof the following: "( 4a) The justice of the peace in giving directions for the conveyance to a hospital of any such person shall name some person or persons, either near relatives or intimate friends of such person, or officers of a municipality, who shall be charged with the duty of conveying such person to the hospital." 3. Sections 2e, 2/ and 2g are added immediately after

section 2d of the said Act as follows: "2e. Whenever the Minister of Health is satisfied that any person should be admitted to a hospital for observation and inquiry into his mental condition, he may order that such person shall be conveyed to a mental hospital and .there received and detained for the purposes aforesaid. "2/. No such order shall be made unless- " (

a) the said person voluntarily applies for such order; or "(

b) some close relative applies for such order; or " (

c) the Minister is satisfied by the evidence of two legally qualified medical practitioners of the propri­ ety of making the order. "2g. The period of detention of any such person for the purposes of observation shall not exceed thirty days." 4. This Act shall come into force on the ........... day of .......................... 19... ' No. 60. FIFTH SESSION FIFTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE V BILL

An Act to amend The Mental Diseases Act. Received and read the First time .................... . Second time .................. . Third time ................... . EDMONTON: J. W. JEFFERY, KING'S PRINTER A.D. 1925 Title: 1925 (5th, 5th) Bill 60,

An Act to amend The Mental Diseases Act