{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-9.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/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) at the time when a report under paragraph 2 is made P is not already an in-patient in the hospital specified in the report, and\n(b) at the end of the period allowed for admission P has not been admitted to that hospital,\nthe expiry of that period is an event which terminates the authorisation.\n(2) In this paragraph “the period allowed for admission” means—\n(a) two days beginning with the date when the medical report under paragraph 4 was made; or\n(b) such longer period, not exceeding 14 days beginning with that date, as a medical practitioner who meets prescribed conditions may (before the end of the period mentioned in head (a)) certify to be necessary because of exceptional circumstances.\n(3) A certificate under sub-paragraph (2)(b) must be in the prescribed form and include prescribed information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 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/2/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}