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Article 81 Visiting and examination of patientsC1C2

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

For the purpose of advising whether an application to the Review Tribunal should be made by or in respect of a patient who is liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under this Order or of furnishing information as to the condition of a patient for the purposes of such an application, any medical practitioner authorised by or on behalf of the patient or other person who is entitled to make or has made the application—

(a)

may at any reasonable time visit the patient and examine him in private, and

(b)

may require the production of and inspect any records relating to the detention or treatment of the patient in any hospital.

Annotations

Modifications

C1

Art. 81 applied (with modifications) (31.3.2013) by Mental Health (Private Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/403), regs. 1, 3(5)(e)(i), 4

C2

Art. 81 applied (with modifications.) (31.3.2013) by Mental Health (Private Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/22), regs. 1, 3(5)(e), 4

Notes on Part V

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. V heading substituted (2.12.2019) by Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 18), s. 307(2), Sch. 8 para. 38 (with ss. 285-287); S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)