{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-91",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-91.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/91",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Instruction of independent mental capacity advocate",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) an HSC trust receives a request duly made under section 88 for the trust to instruct an independent mental capacity advocate to represent and provide support to a person (“P”) in the determination of whether a particular act would be in P's best interests, and\n(b) no declaration has been made by P under section 90 in relation to the matter (or a declaration has been made but revoked),\nthe trust must instruct an independent mental capacity advocate to represent and provide support to P in the determination of whether the act would be in P's best interests.",
  "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/91",
    "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."
}