{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/18",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where an authorisation under this Schedule authorises the detention of P in a specified place for specified purposes.\n(2) As well as authorising that detention, the authorisation authorises any related detention that may occur while the authorisation is in force.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) “related detention” means—\n(a) any detention of P in the specified place at a time when the detention is partly for the purposes specified in the authorisation and partly for other purposes relating to P's care or treatment;\n(b) any detention of P while P is being taken to the specified place; and\n(c) any detention of P while P is absent from the specified place, if—\n(i) the detention is in pursuance of a condition imposed on P that relates to permission given to P to be absent from the specified place for a particular period or a particular occasion;\n(ii) the imposition of the condition is an act to which section 9(2) applies; and\n(iii) the detention is for no longer than 7 days.\n(4) In this paragraph “detention” means detention in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty.\n(5) Nothing in the authorisation or this paragraph affects the operation of this Part of this Act in relation to any detention of P in circumstances not amounting to a deprivation of liberty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 in operation at 2.12.2019 for specified purposes by S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(4), Sch. Pt. 4 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:54.781348+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}