Zambia - 2019 - Health

The Mental Health Act, 2019

Ministry of Health, Zambia

An Act to provide for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with mental illness, mental disorder, mental impairment or mental disability; to establish the National Mental Health Council and provide for its functions; provide for mental health services in correctional facilities; give effect to certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental care General Assembly Resolution 46/119 of 17th December 1991, and other international human rights instruments to which Zambia is a State Party; repeal the mental Disorders Act, 1949; and provide for related matters.

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January 2022

An Act to provide for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with mental illness, mental disorder, mental impairment or mental disability; to establish the National Mental Health Council and provide for its functions; provide for mental health services in correctional facilities; give effect to certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental care General Assembly Resolution 46/119 of 17th December 1991, and other international human rights instruments to which Zambia is a State Party; repeal the mental Disorders Act, 1949; and provide for related matters.

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