Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism Such supervision would permit greater surveillance of cases of admissions of minors to specific centres for the treatment of conduct disorders, verifying, at least on a six-monthly basis, the situation of the minor, and requesting, if appropriate, before the judge any measures that may be deemed necessary. It would be desirable, for the purposes of due coordination for the result of such inspections to be conveyed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, notwithstanding the inspections that may be carried out by the public prosecution itself. III.3.5 Residential establishments or/rehabilitation services providing healthcare, social and 311. Also reviewed by the NPM are public or private residential centres providing healthcare, social or rehabilitation services including, among others, to groups such as senior citizens, chronical patients and persons with a mental, physical, sensorial or intellectual disability, which may include persons whose internment was not voluntary. Senior Citizen Residence Geriatros of Corunna 312. From the start, the Ombudsman’s Office has verified an absence of regulation to sufficiently safeguard the fundamental rights of patients who are inmates of healthcare or social mental health centres, and to establish the eventual restrictions for the protection of their life, health or physical safety. The legislative reform has become even more necessary if possible after Judgment of the Constitutional Court 132/2010, of 2 December, which declares unconstitutional two paragraphs of the first section of article 763 of the Civil Procedure Act, which contemplated non-voluntary admission due to mental disorder, on considering that such measure, depriving a person of liberty, could not be implemented in an ordinary law and required a law with the ranking of organic act. A project for an organic act should be prepared to regulate admissions carried out under civil legislation and to conform to the regulation of the United Nations 104

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