# The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Article 11: Rectification of applications, recommendations and reports

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where within the period of 14 days 28 days beginning with the date of admission, the application for assessment, the medical recommendation or any report given under Article 9 is found to be in any respect incorrect or defective, the application, recommendation or report may, within that period and with the consent of the responsible authority, be amended by the person by whom it was signed; and where any such amendment is made the application, recommendation or report shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect as if it had been originally made as so amended.
(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), where within the period mentioned in that paragraph it appears to the responsible authority that a medical recommendation or a report under Article 9 is insufficient to warrant the detention of a patient under this Part, it may, within that period, give notice in writing to that effect to the applicant; and where any such notice is given in respect of a medical recommendation or report, that recommendation or report shall be disregarded, but the application for assessment shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, sufficient if—
(a) a fresh medical recommendation or report complying with the relevant provisions of this Part (other than those relating to the time at which a recommendation must be signed or a report furnished) is furnished to the responsible authority within that period; and
(b) that recommendation or report complies with those provisions.
(3) The responsible authority shall immediately inform RQIA of any amendment made under paragraph (1) and shall immediately forward to RQIA a copy of any fresh medical recommendation or report furnished to the authority under paragraph (2)(a).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/article/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-11
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