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110. Power to call for information.
111. Power of Central Government to issue directions
112. Power of Central Government to supersede Central Authority.
113. Power of State Government to supersede State Authority.
114. Special provisions for States in north-east and hill States.
115. Presumption of severe stress in case of attempt to commit suicide.
116. Bar of jurisdiction.
117. Transitory provisions.
118. Chairperson, members and staff of Authority and Board to be public servants.
119. Protection of action taken in good faith.
120. Act to have overriding effect.
121. Power of Central Government and State Governments to make rules.
122. Power of Central Authority to make regulations.
123. Power of State Authority to make regulations.
124. Laying of rules and regulations.
125. Power to remove difficulties.
126. Repeal and saving.
ACT NO. 10 OF 2017
THE MENTAL HEALTHCARE ACT, 2017
[7 th April, 2017.]
An Act to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
WHEREAS the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on the 13th December, 2006 at United Nations Headquarters in New York and came into force on the 3rd May, 2008;
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on the 13th December, 2006 at United Nations Headquarters in New York and came into force on the
AND WHEREAS India has signed and ratified the said Convention on the 1st day of October, 2007;
AND WHEREAS it is necessary to align and harmonise the existing laws with the said Convention.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Source: India Code