{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-292",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-292.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/292",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "292",
  "heading": "Warrants",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if it appears to a lay magistrate, on complaint on oath made by an officer of an HSC trust or a constable—\n(a) that there is reasonable cause to believe that a relevant person is to be found on any premises;\n(b) that admission to the premises has been refused or that a refusal of such admission is apprehended; and\n(c) that it is reasonable in the circumstances to issue a warrant.\n(2) The lay magistrate may issue a warrant authorising any constable accompanied by a medical practitioner to enter the premises, if need be by force, and remove the relevant person.\n(3) A constable executing a warrant under subsection (2) may be accompanied by an approved social worker (as well as a medical practitioner).\n(4) It is not necessary to name the relevant person in any complaint or warrant under this section.\n(5) In this section “relevant person” means a person who—\n(a) by virtue of this Act, is liable to be detained in a place in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty; and\n(b) is, by virtue of this Act, to be taken to that place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 292 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/section/292",
    "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."
}