Paragraph 5 I1
Northern Ireland
(1)
A person certified by a registered medical practitioner to be or to be likely to be severely mentally impaired.
(2)
For the purposes of this paragraph a person is severely mentally impaired if he has a severe impairment of intelligence or social functioning (however caused) which appears to be permanent.
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. para. 5 in operation at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1