Mental Healthcare Act

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THE MENTAL HEALTHCARE ACT, 2017 [Act No. 10 of 2017] [7th April, 2017] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on the 13th December, 2006 at United Nations Headquarters in New York and came into force on the 3rd May, 2008; AND WHEREAS India has signed and ratified the said Convention on the 1st day of October, 2007; AND WHEREAS it is necessary to align and harmonise the existing laws with the said Convention. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- (1) This Act may be called the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. (2) It shall extend to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; or on the date of completion of the period of nine months from the date on which the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 receives the assent of the