An Act to provide for the promotion and protection of the
rights of persons with mental illness, mental disorder,
mental impairment or mental disability; to establish the
National Mental Health Council and provide for its
functions; provide for mental health services in
correctional facilities; give effect to certain provisions of
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, Principles for the protection of persons
with mental illness and the improvement of mental care
General Assembly Resolution 46/119 of 17th December,
1991 and other international human rights instruments to
which Zambia is a State Party; repeal the Mental Disorders
Act, 1949; and provide for matters connected with, or
incidental to, the foregoing.