A sketch of the situation in other countries and in Mandatory Palestine is given. The new law has to take into consideration the needs both of medicine and of society. Psychiatric cases are to be handled first of all by medical factors, and to a minimal extent by administrative ones. Psychiatry is to be advanced by the state. We have to abolish the legal discrimination between mentally and physically sick persons. Thus, the registration of mentally sick is to be cancelled. The responsibility is to be put on the Ministry of Health.