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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 - XII MISCELLANEOUS 66. Power to make rules.---(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette within a year, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) to prescribe forms for any proceedings under this Act; (b) to prescribe places of admission, places of safety and regulation of treatment of mentally disordered persons; (c) to regulate the admission, care and treatment of under trial persons or convicted prisoners; (d) to regulate the management of a mental health facility; and (e) to prescribe conditions subject to which a psychiatric facility may be licensed.