Section 33 of The Mental Health Act

Restriction as to psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric nursing homes into which reception order may direct admission

No Magistrate or District Court shall pass a reception order for the admission as an in-patient to, or for the detention of any mentally ill person, as an in-patient to, or for the detention of any mentally ill person, in any psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home outside the State in which the Magistrate or the District Court exercises jurisdiction:

Provided that an order for admission or detention into or in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home situated in any other State may be passed if the State Government has by general or special order and after obtaining the consent of the Government of such other State, authorised the Magistrate or the District Court in that behalf.

COMMENT

This section imposes restriction to the passage of reception order for admission or detention of any mentally ill person, as an in-patient in any psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home outside the State, unless the State Government has by general or special order authorised for the same.