{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-211",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-211.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/211",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "211",
  "heading": "Power to transfer person serving custodial sentence etc to hospital",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person is serving a relevant sentence, and\n(b) the conditions for giving a direction under this section are met (see section 212),\nthe Department of Justice may by warrant direct that the person be removed to a hospital specified in the direction.\n(2) For the purposes of this section a person is “serving a relevant sentence” if—\n(a) the person is detained under a custodial sentence (defined by section 253);\n(b) the person is committed to custody for failure to comply with an order to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour or both; or\n(c) the person is committed by a court to a prison in default of payment of any sum adjudged to be paid on the person's conviction.\n(3) In subsection (2)(c) “prison” includes a young offenders centre or juvenile justice centre.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified (temp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/7",
      "affecting_title": "Coronavirus Act 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/211",
    "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."
}