3. The general objects of the Corporation shall be to promote ways and means of social rehabilitation of persons who have suffered mental illness, by means of
| (a) establishing and maintaining institutions such as Day Care Centers and Homes under the guidance of professionally qualified persons; |
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| (b) encouraging, helping and participating in carrying out programmes of scientific research in the sphere of rehabilitating the mentally sick; |
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| (c) promoting the exchange of trained persons between nations; |
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| (d) providing, promoting and encouraging the education of the public, with particular emphasis on the rehabilitation of the mentally sick, and the methods to be adopted to combat such disease and to foster their interest and enlist their co-operation in such measures; |
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| (e) seeking the support and the assistance of the Government, any organizations local or international, 'and well-wishers in the rehabilitation programmers established as part of the treatment of the mentally sick; |
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| (f) collaborating with the Government or with any local authority or any authority in Sri Lanka to elsewhere in any project or undertaking with the same aim and object; and |
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| (g) providing facilities for, and assistance to patients or their dependents for continued care and rehabilitation. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts