Acts and Regulations

M-10 - Mental Health Act

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Service of documents on the Public Trustee and on patient
44When an action or proceeding is brought or taken against a patient in a psychiatric facility for whom a representative or committee has not been appointed by the court and such action or proceeding is in connection with the estate of such a person, the writ or other document by which the proceedings are commenced and any other document requiring personal service shall be served upon the Public Trustee endorsed with the written statement of the name of the psychiatric facility in which the patient is located, and shall also be served upon the patient, unless in the opinion of the attending psychiatrist personal service upon the patient would cause serious harm to him by reason of his mental condition, in which case it shall also be served upon the administrator.
1969, c.13, s.44; 1989, c.23, s.11; 2005, c.P-26.5, s.28; 2022, c.60, s.76
Service of documents on the Public Trustee and on patient
44When an action or proceeding is brought or taken against a patient in a psychiatric facility for whom a committee has not been appointed by the court and such action or proceeding is in connection with the estate of such a person, the writ or other document by which the proceedings are commenced and any other document requiring personal service shall be served upon the Public Trustee endorsed with the written statement of the name of the psychiatric facility in which the patient is located, and shall also be served upon the patient, unless in the opinion of the attending psychiatrist personal service upon the patient would cause serious harm to him by reason of his mental condition, in which case it shall also be served upon the administrator.
1969, c.13, s.44; 1989, c.23, s.11; 2005, c.P-26.5, s.28
Service of documents on Administrator of Estates and on patient
44When an action or proceeding is brought or taken against a patient in a psychiatric facility for whom a committee has not been appointed by the court and such action or proceeding is in connection with the estate of such a person, the writ or other document by which the proceedings are commenced and any other document requiring personal service shall be served upon the Administrator of Estates endorsed with the written statement of the name of the psychiatric facility in which the patient is located, and shall also be served upon the patient, unless in the opinion of the attending psychiatrist personal service upon the patient would cause serious harm to him by reason of his mental condition, in which case it shall also be served upon the administrator.
1969, c.13, s.44; 1989, c.23, s.11