MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 7 Functions of the Director-General

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 7

7 Functions of the Director-General

The functions of the Director-General under this Act are:

(a) to ensure that provision is made for the care, treatment, control and rehabilitation of persons who are mentally ill or mentally disordered, and

(b) to promote the establishment of community mental health services for the purpose of enabling the treatment in the community wherever possible of persons who are mentally ill or suffering from the effects of mental illness or who are mentally disordered, and

(c) to promote research into mental illness, and

(d) to assist in the training and education of persons responsible for the care and treatment of persons who are mentally ill or mentally disordered, and

(e) to make recommendations and reports to the Minister with respect to matters affecting the accommodation, maintenance, care, treatment, control and welfare of persons who are mentally ill or mentally disordered, and

(f) to submit recommendations to the Minister concerning amendments to this Act or the regulations, and

(g) to promote informed public opinion on matters relating to mental health by publishing reports and information concerning mental health and to promote public understanding of and involvement in measures for the prevention, treatment and care of mental illness and the care, protection, control and rehabilitation of persons who are mentally ill or who are mentally disordered.