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Cap.1 Context of mental health legislation: -The interface between mental health law and mental health policy -Protecting, promoting and improving rights through mental health legislation -Separate versus integrated legislation on mental health -Regulations, service orders, ministerial decrees -Key international and regional human rights instruments related to the rights of people with mental disorders -Major human rights standars applicable to mental health -Technical standars -Limitation of rights Cap.2 Content of mental health legislation: -Definitions -Access to mental health care -Rights of users of mental health services -Rights of families and carers of persons with mental disorders -Competence, capacity and guardianship -Voluntary and involuntary mental health care -Staff requirements for determining mental disorder -Special treatments -Seclusion and restraint -Clinical and experimental research -Oversight and review mechanisms -Police responsabilities with respect to persons with mental disorders -Legislative provisions relating to mentally ill offenders -Additional substantive provisions affecting mental health -Protections for vulnerable groups -Offences and penalties Cap.3 Process drafting, adopting and implementing mental health legislation: -Drafting mental health legislation -Adoption of legislation -Implementing mental health legislation