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Article 116 Powers of HSC trusts in relation to property of patientsF10C1C2

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

F1(1)

Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), where it appears to F2an HSC trust that any patient in any hospital or in any accommodation managed by it is incapable, by reason of mental disorder, of managing and administering his property and affairs, F3the trust may receive and hold money and valuables on behalf of that patient.

(2)

A receipt or discharge given by F4a trust . . . for any such money or valuables shall be treated as a valid receipt or discharge given by the patient.

(3)

Where F5a trust . . . holds money or valuables on behalf of a person in pursuance of paragraph (1), it may expend that money or dispose of those valuables for the benefit of that person and in the exercise of the powers conferred by this paragraph F6the trust . . . shall have regard to the sentimental value that any article may have for the patient, or would have but for his mental disorder.

(4)

F7A trust . . . shall not receive or hold under paragraph (1) on behalf of any one patient without the consent of F8RQIA money or valuables exceeding in the aggregate such sum as the Department may from time to time determine.

(5)

Paragraph (1) shall not apply where a controller has been appointed in Northern Ireland in relation to the property and affairs of the patient.

F9(6)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1994 NI 2

F2

Words in art. 116(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(2)(a); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F3

Words in art. 116(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(2)(b); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F4

Words in art. 116(2) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(3); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F5

Words in art. 116(3) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(4)(a); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F6

Words in art. 116(3) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(4)(b); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F7

Words in art. 116(4) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(5); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F8

Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 8(1) (subject to Sch. 6 para. 8(2)-(4)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2

F9

Art. 116(6) omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(6); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

F10

Words in art. 116 heading substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 94(7); S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)

Modifications

C1

Art. 116 applied (31.3.2013) by Mental Health (Private Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/403), regs. 1, 3(7)(b), 4

C2

Art. 116 applied (31.3.2013) by Mental Health (Private Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/22), regs. 1, 3(7)(b), 4

Notes on Part IX

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Pt. 9 heading substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 88; S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)