{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-176",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-176.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/176",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "176",
  "heading": "Effect of hospital directions",
  "text": "Where a court gives a hospital direction in respect of a person—\n(a) a constable or any other person directed to do so by the court must take the person to the hospital specified in the direction;\n(b) the managing authority of that hospital must—\n(i) admit the person; and\n(ii) detain him or her in accordance with Chapter 5; and\n(c) any question whether the person may be given any treatment while detained in a hospital in pursuance of the direction is (subject to section 243) to be determined in the same way as if the person were not so detained.",
  "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/176",
    "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."
}