(1) The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, declare any hospital, or any part of a hospital, to be a psychiatric security institution, and may in like manner revoke or amend any such notice.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no compulsory treatment order or any other order made by any court under this or any other Act shall purport to commit any person to a psychiatric security institution.
(3) No patient shall be transferred to or from any psychiatric security institution otherwise than at the direction or with the authority of the Director.
(4) Subject to any regulations made under this Act, any patient in a psychiatric security institution shall, if so required by the Director, be photographed.