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Section 61 Persons suffering from mental disorder.F1

Where a person is incapable, by reason of mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, of managing and administering his property and affairs, his controller or (if no controller is acting for him) any person authorised in that behalf may, under an order of the High Court or (as the case may be) the courtF2 or, in the case of a reference to the Lands Tribunal, that Tribunal, represent him for all or any of the purposes of this Act.

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1986 NI 4

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1992 NI 7

Notes on the whole Act

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Words in preamble of Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)