Article 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.

This Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department may by order appointF1.

An order under paragraph (2) may also appoint a day for the coming into operation of any provision of the S.I. 1986/596 Mental Health (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1986 which appears to the Head of the Department to be consequential on any provision of this Order brought into operation by the order.