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MENTAL HEALTH (CARE AND TREATMENT)
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REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE


No. 21 of 2008.

I assent.

S R NATHAN,
President.
2nd October 2008
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An Act to provide for the admission, detention, care and treatment of mentally disordered persons in designated psychiatric institutions, to repeal the Mental Disorders and Treatment Act (Chapter 178 of the 1985 Revised Edition) and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other written laws.

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: