Mental Health Act 2001

Akta Kesihatan Mental 2001

Consolidates the laws relating to mental disorder and provides for the admission, detention, lodging, care, treatment, rehabilitation, control and protection of persons who are mentally disordered.

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Number	Act 615
Type	Federal Act
Applies to	Federal
Subject	Health & medicine
Year	2001
Official “last updated”	1 February 2014
Published by	Attorney General's Chambers — Laws of Malaysia portal (lom.agc.gov.my)

Long title

An Act to consolidate the laws relating to mental disorder and to provide for the admission, detention, lodging, care, treatment, rehabilitation, control and protection of persons who are mentally disordered and for related matters.

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Version history

Captured	Language	Official “last updated”	Pages	SHA-256	File
26 October 2026	Bahasa Melayu	1 February 2014	80	`4dd7ef584c99`	PDF 0.4 MB
26 October 2026	English	1 February 2014	74	`5f35224ecd55`	PDF 0.6 MB

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