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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 - III ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT 15. Application by whom to be presented.---(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) the application on a prescribed form shall be presented by the husband or wife of the patient or, if there is no husband or wife or the husband or wife is prevented by reason of mental disorder, absence from Pakistan or otherwise from making the presentation, by the nearest relative of the patient. (2) If the application is not presented by the husband or wife, or, where there is no husband or wife, by the nearest relative of the patient, the application shall contain a statement of the reasons why it is not so presented, by the husband, wife or the nearest relative and of the connection of the applicant with the patient, and the circumstances under which he presents the application. (3) No person shall present an application unless he has attained the age of majority and has within fourteen days before the presentation of the application, personally seen the said patient. (4) The application shall be signed and verified by the applicant, and the statement of prescribed particulars by the person making such statement.