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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 100

Ill-treatment of patients.

100.(1) Any person who, being an officer on the staff of or otherwise employed
in a hospital or private hospital, or being a member of [the
Health and Social Services Board administering] a hospital, or a person
carrying on a private hospital

(a)ill-treats or wilfully neglects a patient for the time being receiving
treatment for mental disorder as an in-patient in that hospital or
private hospital; or

(b)ill-treats or wilfully neglects, on the premises of which the hospital or
private hospital forms part, a patient for the time being receiving such
treatment there as an out-patient;

(2) Any individual who ill-treats or wilfully neglects a mentally disordered
patient who is for the time being subject to his guardianship under this Act
or otherwise in his custody or care shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both.

(4) If any person is charged with an offence under this section... further
proceedings on such a charge shall not be taken against him except by or with
the consent of the Attorney General.


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