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- Price
- ₹128 · 20% off
- Edition
- 2025

The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
Commercial Law Publishers
Book Specifications
- Edition
- 2025
- Act and date
- Act 10 of 2017, dated 7-4-2017
- Effective from
- 29-5-2018
- Price
- ₹160
About this book
The 2025 edition presents the complete Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 with latest amendments and allied rules. Essential for mental health professionals, legal practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in healthcare and human rights law.
At a glance
| Edition | 2025 |
| Act and date | Act 10 of 2017, dated 7-4-2017 |
| Effective from | 29-5-2018 |
| Price | ₹160 |
What's inside
- Complete Act text with latest amendments
- Mental Healthcare (Rights of Persons with Mental Illness) Rules, 2018 (amended)
- Mental Healthcare (Central and State Mental Health Authority) Rules, 2018 (amended)
- Mental Healthcare (Central Mental Health Authority) Regulations, 2020
- Section-wise marginal notes for quick reference
Who should buy this
- Mental health professionals, hospitals, and care institutions
- Legal practitioners in healthcare and human rights law
- Policymakers, NGOs, and mental health law researchers
Publisher's description
This 2025 edition of The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (Act 10 of 2017, dated 7-4-2017, w.e.f. 29-5-2018 vide SO 2173(E), dated 29-5-2018) provides a comprehensive legal framework for the protection, promotion, and fulfilment of the rights of persons with mental illness, as well as for the regulation of mental health care and services in India.
Inside this handy ₹160 volume
• Complete text of the Act with the latest amendments incorporated
• Includes allied rules and regulations:
– The Mental Healthcare (Rights of Persons with Mental Illness) Rules, 2018 (as amended)
– The Mental Healthcare (Central Mental Health Authority and Mental Health Review Boards) Rules, 2018 (as amended)
– The Mental Healthcare (State Mental Health Authority) Rules, 2018 (as amended)
– The Mental Healthcare (Central Mental Health Authority) Regulations, 2020
• Covers:
– Rights of persons with mental illness
– Duties of government and mental health professionals
– Registration and regulation of mental health establishments
– Procedures for admission, treatment, and discharge
– Establishment and functions of Central and State Mental Health Authorities
• Section-wise marginal notes for quick reference
An essential resource for:
– Mental health professionals, hospitals, and care institutions
– Legal practitioners specialising in healthcare and human rights law
– Policymakers, NGOs, and researchers in mental health law
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