Right to community living

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Statutory text

(2) The appropriate Government shall make effective provisions to reduce and eliminate discrimination and stigma against persons with mental illness and to promote their community living.
(3) Where a person with mental illness is unable to live with his family or has no family, the appropriate Government shall provide support to such person to live in their community.
(4) The appropriate Government shall provide or cause to provide such community-based establishments as are necessary for persons with mental illness to live in the community.
(5) The appropriate Government shall ensure that no person with mental illness shall be required to remain in a mental health establishment merely because he does not have a family or is not accepted by his family or is homeless.

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