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ACT IX OF 2019 ACT IX OF 2019 BALOCHISTAN MENTAL HEALTH ACT, 2019 An Act to consolidate, alter and amend the law relating to the mentally disordered persons in Balochistan, with respect to their care, treatment and management of their property and other related matters [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 25th October, 2019] No. PAB/Legis; V (04)/2019, dated 25.10.2019.---The Balochistan Mental Bill No. 04 of 2019 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 12th October, 2019 and assented to by the Governor Balochistan, on 24th October, 2019 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to consolidate, alter and amend the law relating to the treatment and care of mentally disordered persons in Balochistan, to make better provisions for their care, treatment, management of properties and affairs and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto and to encourage community care of such mentally disordered persons and further to provide for the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorder; AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, the subject matter has been devolved to the provinces, therefore; It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER - II ESTABLISHMENT OF BALOCHISTAN MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY 6. Establishment of psychiatric facilities by the Government.---(1) The Government shall establish or maintain psychiatric facilities for the assessment, admission, treatment, rehabilitation, care and after care of mentally disordered patients at such places, as it deems fit. (2) The psychiatric facilities established under subsection (1) may organize or maintain separate units for - (a) persons who are above the age of eighteen years; (b) child and adolescence psychiatric units; (c) psychogeriatric units for the elderly; and (d) persons who have been convicted of any offence and are mentally disordered for whom special security measures shall be required. (3) Where drug dependence units need to be established, they shall be set up separately which may be within the premises of the psychiatric facility for people who are not mentally disordered but have drug dependence or patients with drug induced behavioral changes. (4) The Incharge and team leader in psychiatric healthcare facility/setting shall be psychiatrist and all other technical, allied specialties and ancillary employees involved and working with psychiatric patient or client in psychiatric healthcare services shall response to the team leader.