# The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Article 7A: Power to detain in hospital pending admission to another hospital

Extent: N.I.

(1) This Article applies to a hospital managed by an HSC trust other than an authorised HSC trust .
(2) If, where a patient is an in-patient in a hospital to which this Article applies, it appears to a medical practitioner on the staff of the hospital that an application for assessment ought to be made in respect of the patient, he may furnish to the HSC trust managing the hospital a report in the prescribed form to that effect; and where he does so, the patient may be detained in the hospital for a period not exceeding 48 hours from the time when the report is so furnished.
(3) A patient who has been detained in a hospital under paragraph (2) shall not be further detained under that paragraph immediately after the expiry of that period of detention.
(4) An HSC trust shall immediately forward to RQIA a copy of any report furnished to the trust under paragraph (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/article/7A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-7A
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