Clause 180

by deleting the words “to apprehend any person who is reported to be mentally disordered and is” and substituting the words “or special police officer to apprehend any person”;

by deleting the words “by reason of” and substituting the words “and such danger is reasonably suspected to be attributable to a”; and

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:“(2) For the purposes of and without limiting subsection (1) —

a police officer’s or special police officer’s reasonable belief that a person is doing or about to do an act which is dangerous to himself is sufficient basis for the police officer’s or special police officer’s reasonable suspicion that the danger to that person is attributable to a mental disorder; and

“special police officer” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Police Force Act (Cap. 235).”.