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''Mental Health Amendment Act'', S.B.C 1968, c 27 [MHAA].  
''Mental Health Amendment Act'', S.B.C 1968, c 27 [MHAA].  
''Mental Health Regulations'', B.C Reg. 233/99; O.C. 869/99; B.C. Reg. 96/2018, May 15, 2018


''Patients Property Act'', RSBC 1996, c 349 [PPA].  
''Patients Property Act'', RSBC 1996, c 349 [PPA].  
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==== Disability Alliance BC (formerly BC Coalition of People with Disabilities) ====
==== Disability Alliance BC ====
*A self-help umbrella group that raises public awareness of issues affecting people with disabilities.  
*A self-help umbrella group that raises public awareness of issues affecting people with disabilities.  
*A great resource for people with any type of disability (mental or physical) that can provide help with a wide range of legal and non-legal issues.  
*A great resource for people with any type of disability (mental or physical) that can provide help with a wide range of legal and non-legal issues.  
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==== Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)’s Mental Health Law Program ====
==== Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)’s Mental Health Law Program ====
Provides information on civil commitment, procedure, the rights of mental patients and the MHA amendments. Other CLAS programs provide free legal services in specific areas such as tenants’ rights, E.I., W.C.B. and human rights.  
Provides representation for involuntarily detained patients who have tribunal hearings either under the MHA or the mental disorder provisions of the Criminal Code. Other CLAS programs provide free legal services in specific areas such as tenants’ rights, E.I., WCB and human rights.
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==== British Columbia Review Board ====
Makes review dispositions where individuals charged with criminal offences have been given verdicts of not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder or unfit to stand trial on account of mental disorder, by a court.
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=== Legal Services Society ===
Website: [http://www.lss.bc.ca/ www.lss.bc.ca/] Telephone: (604)-408-2172 Toll-free:1-866-577-2525
May be available for habeas corpus applications, section 33 applications under the MHA, as well as applications for judicial review of Mental Health Review Board hearing decisions. The request for assistance in these areas would go through the Legal Aid appeals department.


==== Motivation, Power, and Achievement Society (MPA) ====
==== Motivation, Power, and Achievement Society (MPA) ====
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