DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION REGULATIONS

DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION REGULATIONS

DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 326, section 21)

[3rd February, 1961.]

regulations may be cited as the Drug Addicts Treatment
and Rehabilitation Regulations.

2. An application in accordance with the provisions of section 7(1)
of the Ordinance shall be made in either Form 1 or Form 2 in the
Schedule.

3. A bond to pay to the Government or to such other person as may
be entitled thereto, the proper costs of maintenance and treatment in a
centre of a patient, in accordance with the provisions of section 11(1) of
the Ordinance shall be in Form 3 in the Schedule.

4. A bond to secure the continued presence in a centre of a patient
made in accordance with section 12 of the Ordinance shall be in Form 4
in the Schedule.

5. A summons to a witness issued in accordance with the provision
of section 15 of the Ordinance shall be in Form 5 in the Schedule.

6. A superintendent shall be responsible for the treatment and care
of all patients in a centre and for the maintenance of good order in the
centre.

7. A superintendent may refuse to permit any person other than a
visitor to visit a patient in a centre or to permit a patient in a centre to
make or to receive any telephone call at the centre.

8. A superintendent may open and examine any letter, postal
packet, parcel or other matter which is delivered or left at a centre
addressed.to a patient in the centre and may refuse to permit any such
letter, postal packet, parcel or other matter to be delivered to a patient
and may return to the sender, if known, any such letter, postal packet,
parcel or other matter and may delete in any letter any part thereof.

9. A patient in a centre may be employed on such work in the centre
as the superintendent may consider necessary or desirable.

10. No patient in a centre shall have in his possession, without the
authority of the superintendent, any article and any such article found in
his possession may be confiscated by the superintendent.







11. Any person who enters a centre without lawful authority or
excuse shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be
liable to a fine of five hundred dollars

12. If a notice of appeal in writing, made by a patient or by a visitor
is handed to or comes into the possession of a superintendent or of any
other person employed in a centre, the superintendent shall forthwith
cause such notice of appeal to be transmitted to the Chairman of the
Board.

13. (1) When the Chairman of the Board receives a notice of appeal
in writing from a patient, from a visitor, or from a superintendent, he shall
cause a meeting of the Board to be summoned for a date not more than
fourteen days after the receipt of such appeal and shall cause such
appeal to be heard at such meeting.

(2) Any meeting of the Board may be adjourned for any period or
periods not exceeding in all twenty-eight days from the date when an
appeal was first brought before the Board.

SCHEDULE

FORM 1


DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILATION ORDINANCE



Application for Admission to an Addiction


The Superintendent of the
Addiction Treatment Centre at
Hong Kong.



Treatment Centre

[r. 2.]

I.........
(Name in English). (Name in Chinese Characters, if any).

(Addren).




hereby apply, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Drug


Addicts Treatment and Rehabilitation Ordinance, for admission to the


above-mentioned Addiction Treatment Centre.
















2. I undertake that-



(i) I shall remain and may be detained in the said centre or in any


other centre to which 1 may be transferred if required by the


superintendent of the centre, for a period not exceeding six months


from the date of my first admission to the said centre in accordance


with this application;



(ii) I shall submit myself.to such treatment as may from time to time


be prescribed by the superintendent of the centre in which I am


detained;

(iii) I shall obey all lawful orders given to me by the superintendent


or by any person authorized by the superintendent;



(iv) if required by the superintendent, I shall leave the centre in which I


am detained forthwith; and


(v) I may be visited only by such persons as are permitted by the

superintendent.



3. I acknowledge that I may be detained against my win in the said


centre or in any such centre to which I may be transferred, for a period not


exceeding six months from the date of my furst admission to a centre in


accordance with this application and that I may be forcibly retaken by the

superintendent or by any police officer if I absent myself from the centre in


which I am detained, without the permission of the superintendent of the centre.

4. If required, I undertake to repay to

the cost of my maintenance and treatment in such centre as I may be detained,

in accordance
with such scale as has been shown to me before I completed this


application or on such scale as may be prescribed from time to time.






Dated this ..............day of 19


Signed by the said

............

in the presence of-


(Signatwe of Applicant).
( *MAWZW)

The Hong Kong Government or such other person as way be entitled thereto.


DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION ORDINANCE


(Chapter 326)

Application for Admission to an Addiction Treatment
Centre


The Superintendent of
the Addiction Treatment Centre at

Hong Kong.

[r. 2.]


.............................

(Name in English).

I ------------------------ - -----

(Name in Chinese Characters. if any).

of..........(Address).......

hereby apply, in


accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Drug Addicts Treatment and

Rehabilitation Ordinance, for the admission of
(Name in English).

(Name in Chinese Characters, if any).
(Addrerss).

..........................................


a young person, of whom I am a parent/the guardian, to the above-mentioned

Addiction Treatment Centre












2. I undertake that the said

(i) will remain and may be detained in the said centre or in any other

centre to which he may be transferred if required by the superintendent

of the centre, for a period not
exceeding twelve mouths from the date

of his first admission to the said centre in accordance with this

application;



(ii) will submit himself to such treatment as may from time to time be


prescribed by the superintendent of the centre in which he is detained;


(iii) will obey all lawful orders given to him by the superintendent or by


any person authorized by the superintendent;


(iv) if required by the superintendent, will leave the centre in which he is
detained, within forty-eight
hours of being so required; and



(v) may be visited only by such persons as are permitted by the


superintendent.


3. I acknowledge that he may be detained against his will in the said


centre or in any such centre to which he may be transferred, for a period not

exceeding twelve months from the date of his first admission to a centre in

accordance with this

application and that he may be forcibly retaken by the super


intendent or by any police officer if he absents himself from the centre in which
he is detained, without the

permission of the superintendent of the centre.

4. If required, I undertake to repay to * ..........................................

the cost of his maintenance and treatment in such centre as he may be

detained, in accordance with such scale as has been shown to me before


I completed this application or on such scale as may be prescribed from

time to time.








Dated this day of

Signed by the said


in the presence of- (Signature of Applicant)


The title Hong Kong Govemnent or such other person as may be entitled thereto.

FORM 3

drug addicts treatment and rehabilitation ordinance

(Chapter 326)

BY THIS BOND

[r. 3.]

Bond to pay Cost of
Treatnient
------------------
--------
BY THIS BOND I................ (Name in English)...........

(Name in Chinese Characters, if any) of (Address)
................................


acknowledge myself bound to *

in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of the Drug Addicts Treatment

and Rehabilitation Ordinance, in the sum of $



........................................................................... Hong Kong
Dollars)

to be paid to the said
...........................................................................

Scaled with my seal this ......day of 19


NOW THE ABOVE VMTTEN BOND is oonditioned to be void in

case the above-bounden

personal representative or any person acting for or on behalf of him shall

within, one month of the lawful demand therefor, from time to time, pay to













all sums due in respect of the proper cost of maintenance and treatment

of
............................................................

(Name in Chinese Characters, if any). of (Address)


..................

in the drug addiction treatment

centre at or in any other

centre to which he may be transferred but in the event of the above-



bounden ................or his personal representative


failing to pay the said sums whenever due, the above written bond shall


remain in full force and effect notynthstanding that no demand has been


made for the same by the said * ............................................................


Signed, sealed and

delivered by the said



in the presence of-

(Signature of Applicant)

The Hong Kong Government or such other person as may be entitled thereto.



FORM 4


DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION ORDINANCE


(Chapter 326)

Bond to Secure the Continued Presence of a Patient in a Centre


BY TMS BOND I ..................... (name in english)



[r. 4.]

.................














(Name in Chinese Characters, if any).......... of ........(Address)


..................... acknowledge myself bound to



............................................................ in accordance with the provisions

of section 12 of the Drug Addicts Treatment and Rehabilitation Ordinance,


in the sum of $ ....................................


Hong Kong Dollars) to be paid to the said

Sealed with my seal this ......day of 19





NOW THE ABOVE WRITTEN BOND is conditioned to be void in

case

(Name in English).

( Name in Chinese Characters, if any)..........................


.......................



during the period of six monthsitwelve months from his first admission to an

addiction treatment centre, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the

said Ordinance remains in that centre or in any other centre to which he may be
lawfully transferred, if so required by the superintendent of the centre and if.

on any occasion in which
he has been permitted to be absent from a centre on

trial or for any other reasons which
the superintendent may consider necessary,

during such period of six months/twelve
months returns to the centre on the

expiry of the period of lawful absence, if so
required by the superintendent of the centre.

Signed, sealed and delivered by the said in the presence of-

(Signature of Applicant)




* The Hong Kong Government or such other person as may be entitled thereto.











FORM 5


DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION ORDINANCE

(Chapter 326)

Summons to Witness


In the matter of an appeal under section 16 of the Drug Addicts Treatment
and Rehabilitation Ordinance;




And in the matter of (1)
.................................................................. to (2)


You are hereby summoned to appear before the Addiction Treatment

Centre Appeal Board at ........................................................................



upon the ..day of ......at ........o'clock



in the noon to give evidence touching the appeal and also


to bring with you and produce (4) ............................................................


Given under my hand this .......day of 19



.......................

Chairman.

Addiction Treatment Centre Appeal Board.

(1) Insert name of patient who is appealing.


(2) Insert name and address of witness.

(3) Delete if not required.


(4) Specify any books, documents or other things required to be produced.










G.N.A. 93/60. L.N. 199/67. L.N. 170/72. Citation. Application for admission to a centre. Schedule, Forms 1 & 2. Bond. Schedule, forms 3. Bond. Schedule, Forms 4. Summons to witness. Schedule, Forms 5. Responsibility for treatment and care. Visitors and telephone calls. Censorship of letters etc. Employment of patients. Possession of articles without authority. Prohibition of entry to a centre. Appeal to Board. Hearing of appeal. L.N. 170/72.

G.N.A. 93/60. L.N. 199/67. L.N. 170/72. Citation. Application for admission to a centre. Schedule, Forms 1 & 2. Bond. Schedule, forms 3. Bond. Schedule, Forms 4. Summons to witness. Schedule, Forms 5. Responsibility for treatment and care. Visitors and telephone calls. Censorship of letters etc. Employment of patients. Possession of articles without authority. Prohibition of entry to a centre. Appeal to Board. Hearing of appeal. L.N. 170/72.

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