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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 - IX INSPECTION OF MENTALLY DISORDERED PRISONERS 54. Inspection of mentally disordered prisoners.---(1) Where any person is detained under the provisions of section 466 or section 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 (Act V of 1898), section 130 of the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952), section 143 of the Pakistan Air Force Act, 1953 (VI of 1953, or section 123 of the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 (XXXV of 1961), the Inspector -General of Prisons, if the accused person is detained in a jail, and the Board of Inspection or any two members of such Board, if the accused person is detained in a psychiatric facility, may visit him in order to ascertain his state of mind and such a detainee shall be visited once at least in every six months by the Inspector-General of Prisons or, as the case may be, the Board or any two members of such Board, shall make a report as to the state of mind of such person to the authority under whose order the accused person is detained and the Inspector-General of Prisons or, as the case may be, the Board of Inspection or any two members of such Board, shall make a report as to the state of mind of such person to the authority under whose order the accused person is detained. (2) The Government may empower the officer in charge of the jail in which such accused person is detained to discharge all or any of the functions of the Inspector General of Prisons under subsection (1).