Announcements
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Index for MHCA - A
- Absence without leave or discharge
- Accounts and audit of Central Authority
- Accounts and audit of State Authority
- Act to have overriding effect
- Admission and treatment of persons with mental illness, with high support needs, in mental health establishment, beyond thirty days (supported admission beyond thirty days)
- Admission and treatment of persons with mental illness, with high support needs, in mental health establishment, up to thirty days (supported admission)
- Admission of minor
- Admission of person with mental illness as independent patient in mental health establishment
- Advance directive
- Advance directive not to apply to emergency treatment
- Annual report of Central Authority
- Annual report of State Authority
- Appeal to High Court against order of Authority
- Appeal to High Court against order of Authority or Board.
- Applications to Board
- Appointment and revocation of nominated representative
- Appropriate Government to take measures as regard to human resource development and training, etc.
- Audit of mental health establishment
Index for MHCA - B
Index for MHCA - C
- Capacity to make mental health care and treatment decisions
- Central Authority to appoint Expert Committee to prepare guidance document
- Central Mental Health Authority Fund
- Certificates, fees and register of mental health establishments
- Chairperson, members and staff of Authority and Board to be public servants
- Constitution of Mental Health Review Board
- Co-ordination within appropriate Government
- Composition of Board
- Composition of Central Authority
- Composition of State Authority
- Conveying or admitting person with mental illness to mental health establishment by Magistrate
- Creating awareness about mental health and illness and reducing stigma associated with mental illness
Index for MHCA - D
- Decisions of Authority and Board
- Determination of mental illness
- Discharge of independent patients
- Discharge planning
- Duties of nominated representative
- Duties of police officers in respect of persons with mental illness
- Duty of mental health establishment to display information
- Duty to follow advance directive
Index for MHCA - E
Index for MHCA - F
Index for MHCA - G
Index for MHCA - I
Index for MHCA - L
Index for MHCA - M
- Maintenance of online register
- Maintenance of register of mental health establishment in digital format
- Manner of making advance directive
- Meetings
- Meetings of Central Authority
- Meetings of State Authority
- Member not to participate in meetings in certain cases
- Member not to participate in meetings in certain cases.
- Nominated representative of minor
Index for MHCA - O
Index for MHCA - P
- Penalties for establishing or maintaining mental health establishment in contravention of provisions of this Act
- Persons in custodial institutions
- Power of Central Authority to make regulations
- Power of Central Government and State Governments to make rules
- Power of Central Government to issue directions
- Power of Central Government to supersede Central Authority
- Power of State Authority to make regulations
- Power of State Government to supersede State Authority
- Power to call for information
- Power to remove difficulties
- Power to review, alter, modify or cancel advance directive
- Powers and functions of Board
- Presumption of severe stress in case of attempt to commit suicide
- Prisoners with mental illness
- Procedure for registration, inspection and inquiry of mental health establishments
- Proceedings before Board
- Proceedings before Board to be judicial proceedings
- Prohibited procedures
- Promotion of mental health and preventive programmes
- Protection of action taken in good faith
- Punishment for contravention of provisions of the Act or rules or regulations made there under
Index for MHCA - Q
Index for MHCA - R
- Registration of mental health establishment
- Repeal and saving
- Report to Magistrate of person with mental illness in private residence who is ill-treated or neglected
- Research
- Resignation
- Resignation
- Restraints and seclusion
- Restriction on psychosurgery for persons with mental illness
- Restriction on release of information in respect of mental illness
- Restriction to discharge functions by professionals not covered by profession
- Review of advance directives
- Revocation, alteration, etc., of nominated representative by Board
- Revocation, amendment or cancellation of advance directive
- Right to access medical records
- Right to access mental health care
- Right to community living
- Right to confidentiality
- Right to equality and non-discrimination
- Right to information
- Right to legal aid
- Right to make complaints about deficiencies in provision of services
- Right to personal contacts and communication
- Right to protection from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Index for MHCA - S
Index for MHCA - T
- Term of office, salaries and allowances of chairperson and members
- Term of office, salaries and allowances of chairperson and other members
- Terms and conditions of service of chairperson and members of Board
- Transfer of assets, liabilities of Central Authority
- Transfer of assets, liabilities of State Authority
- Transfer of persons with mental illness from one mental health establishment to another mental health establishment
- Transitory provisions
