New South Wales Repealed Acts

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This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 298

Ill-treatment etc of patients

298 Ill-treatment etc of patients

A medical superintendent or any other person employed in a hospital must not wilfully strike, wound, ill-treat or wilfully neglect a patient or person detained in a hospital.

Maximum penalty: (for each offence) 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.


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