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Brunei Darussalam's new Mental Health Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hilda Ho
Hilda Ho*
Affiliation:
Ministry of Health, Brunei Darussalam, email hilda.ho@moh.gov.bn
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Brunei's new mental health legislation was implemented on 1 November 2014. This is a much needed and long overdue development which has required significant multi-agency consultation and commitment. This paper describes how the 2014 Mental Health Order was prepared and provides a summary of its contents. The future direction and challenges facing its full implementation are discussed.

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Mental Health Law Profile
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BJPsych International , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 38 - 40
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016

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