122 Minister may authorize removal of patients from Zimbabwe (1) If the Minister, after consultation with the chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, is satisfied that— (a) a patient should be removed from Zimbabwe to another country; and (b) the patient’s removal is likely to be for his benefit; and (c) proper arrangements have been made for the patient’s removal and subsequent care and treatment; the Minister may, by warrant in the prescribed form, direct that the patient be delivered to a person named in the warrant for the purpose of his removal from Zimbabwe to the country named in the warrant: Provided that a warrant shall not authorize the removal of a patient detained under Part III or IV unless he has been discharged in terms of that Part. (2) A warrant under subsection (1) shall be authority for the removal from Zimbabwe of the person named in the warrant. 123 Patients passing through Zimbabwe (1) Where a person has been declared in a country other than Zimbabwe to be mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped and he is brought into Zimbabwe in custody under a warrant or order in the course of his transfer from the first-mentioned country to another country for care and treatment, he shall be deemed to be in lawful custody while he is in Zimbabwe and, if he escapes from that custody, he may be arrested without warrant by any police officer who shall return him forthwith to the custody from which he escaped. (2) A warrant or order referred to in subsection (1) shall be a document which purports— (a) to have been issued by a competent authority of the country from which the person named in the document is to be removed; and (b) to authorize that person’s removal to a specified country, access to which is ordinarily or conveniently obtained by passage through Zimbabwe. (3) If any question arises as to whether a warrant or order referred to in subsection (1) was issued by a competent authority or whether it authorizes the removal referred to in subsection (2), the Minister’s certificate shall be accepted in all courts as prima facie proof of the matter. 124 Dissolution of partnership where member is mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped Where a member of a partnership is— (a) declared by the High Court to be mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped; or (b) detained as a patient in terms of this Act; the High Court may order the dissolution of the partnership and additionally, or alternatively, make such other order regarding the partnership as it thinks fit in the circumstances. 125 Regulations (1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which, in his opinion, are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide for— (a) the accommodation, facilities, equipment and staff to be provided in or at institutions, special institutions and other places where patients are detained or treated, including nursery and other facilities for the care of patients’ children; (b) the inspection of institutions, special institutions and other places in which patients are detained or treated; (c) the admission and discharge of patients; (d) the removal or transfer, including the temporary transfer, of patients from one institution, special institution or place to another institution, special institution or place; (e) the books to be kept in institutions, special institutions and other places where patients are detained or treated, the entries to be made in such books and the accounts, reports, returns, extracts, copies, statements, notices, documents and information to be sent to the Minister, the Secretary, the Mental Health Review Tribunal or any other authority or person; (f) the forms to be used for the purposes of this Act; (g) the management of patients in single care; (h) the control of electro-convulsive therapy, leucotomy and other operations and medical or therapeutic treatment which, in the Minister’s opinion, require special control; (i) mechanical means of restraint; (j) the visiting of patients; (k) the functions of voluntary organizations relating to mental health services and the welfare of patients; (l) the provision by local authorities of accommodation for the housing and care of patients; (m) the provision of community psychiatric services, after-care and follow-up services;