{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-147",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-147.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": "section/147",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "147",
  "heading": "Duty to inform certain persons where power of removal or transfer used",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a constable takes a person (“R”) to a place of safety under section 139 or 145.\n(2) The constable must ensure that, as soon as practicable after R arrives at the place of safety, the required information is given to⁠—\n(a) the HSC trust in whose area that place of safety is situated;\n(b) the appropriate person; and\n(c) if the appropriate person does not live with R and it is practicable to give the information to a relevant person who lives with R, such a person.\n(3) But if⁠—\n(a) it is not practicable to give the required information to the appropriate person, and\n(b) it is practicable to give the required information to a relevant person,\nsubsection (2) has effect as if the reference in paragraph (b) to the appropriate person were to a relevant person.\n(4) In this section⁠—\n“the appropriate person” means—\n(a)if R is 16 or over, any person who is R's nominated person;\n(b)if R is under 16, a person with parental responsibility for R;\n“relevant person” means a person who is 16 or over and is—\n(a)named by R as someone to whom the information should be given;\n(b)engaged in caring for R; or\n(c)interested in R's welfare;\n“the required information” has the meaning given by section 148.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/147",
    "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."
}