# Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 13

Status: prospective

(1) Article 27 (duty of authority to give information to patients and nearest relatives) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1) omit—
(a) each “or subject to guardianship”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (b) “or guardianship”;
(c) “or the commencement or renewal of the authority for his guardianship”.
(3) In paragraph (2) omit—
(a) each “or subject to guardianship”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (a)(i) “, 24”;
(c) “or his reception into guardianship”.
(4) In paragraph (4)—
(a) omit “or subject to guardianship”;
(b) for “the patient,” substitute “ the patient and ”;
(c) omit the words from “and, in” to “guardian of the patient”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/8/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-8/paragraph-13
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