Singapore legislation
Clause 13
Clause 13
Amendment of Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008
In the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008, in section 7 —
in subsection (1), replace “any person believed to be dangerous to himself or herself or other persons and such danger is reasonably suspected to be attributable to a mental disorder and take the person” with “any person (“P”) where the police officer or special police officer believes that P may endanger P’s or any other person’s life or personal safety, and P’s conduct is reasonably suspected to be attributable to a mental disorder, and take P’’; and
in subsection (2), replace paragraph (a) with —“(a)a police officer’s or special police officer’s reasonable belief that P is endangering P’s life or personal safety is sufficient basis for the police officer’s or special police officer’s reasonable suspicion that P’s conduct is attributable to a mental disorder;
(aa)it is sufficient that the danger to life or personal safety is only reasonably likely to occur and need not be imminent, and actual harm is not required; and”.