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Mental Health Care Act, 2002 (Act No. 17 of 2002)

Regulations

Regulations for Licensing Community Mental Health Day Care and Residential Care Facilities for People with Mental Illness and or Severe or Profound Intellectual Disability, 2025 - effective 20 December 2026

5. Prohibition and penalties

 

(1) A person may not establish or operate a day care facility or a residential care facility which provides care to five or more people with mental illness and or severe or profound intellectual disability without a licence from the relevant provincial department of health.

 

(2) A person who operates a day care facility or residential care facility in contravention of subregulation (1) is, upon conviction, liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years or to both fine and such an imprisonment.