S.I. No. 264/1961:

MENTAL TREATMENT ACT, 1961, (COMMENCEMENT) (No. 2) ORDER, 1961.

MENTAL TREATMENT ACT, 1961, (COMMENCEMENT) (No. 2) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 43 of the Mental Treatment Act, 1961 , (No. 7 of 1961), hereby orders as follows:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Mental Treatment Act, 1961 , (Commencement) (No. 2) Order, 1961.

2. Sections 3, 6 to 12, 14 to 17, 19, 20 and 37 of the Mental Treatment Act, 1961 , shall for all purposes come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1962.

3. Section 42 of the said Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1962, for the purpose of effecting the repeal of subsection (2) of section 216 of the Mental Treatment Act, 1945 (No. 19 of 1945).

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twenty-third day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to provide for the bringing into operation as from the 1st March, 1962, of the sections of the Mental Treatment Act, 1961 , listed in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Order. The remaining sections of that Act were brought into operation on the 1st April, 1961, ( S.I. No. 70 of 1961 .)