The Rajasthan Rehabilitation Of Beggars Or Indigents (Amendment) Act, 2020

(1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Rehabilitation of Beggars or Indigents (Amendment) Act, 2020. (2) It shall come into force at once.

For the existing section 35 of the Rajasthan Rehabilitation of Beggars or Indigents Act, 2012 (Act No. 36 of 2012), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

"35. A Beggar who is mentally ill, how to be dealt with.-Where it appears to the Superintendent of Rehabilitation Home or a Rehabilitation Officer after getting due prima facie or cursory medical examination done from a Government Medical Officer that the beggar brought before him for admission to the Rehabilitation Home is mentally unsound, he may, instead of keeping such a person in the Rehabilitation Home take appropriate steps for confining such persons to Psychiatric Hospital as per provisions of Mental Health Act, 1987 (Central Act No. 14 of 1987).".