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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 30

Return and re-admission of patients absent without leave.

30.(1) Where a patient who is for the time being liable to be detained under
this Part in a hospital

(a)absents himself from the hospital without leave granted under section
twenty-nine; or

(b)fails to return to the hospital on any occasion on which, or at the
expiration of any period for which, leave of absence was granted to him under
that section, or upon being recalled thereunder; or

(c)absents himself without permission from any place where he is required to
reside in accordance with conditions imposed on the grant of leave of absence
under that section;

(2) Where a patient who is for the time being subject to guardianship under
this Part absents himself without the leave of his guardian from the place at
which he is required by the guardian to reside, he may, subject to sub-section
(3), be taken into custody and returned to that place [by any constable or by
any person authorised in writing by the guardian or by a
Health and Social Services Board.]

(3) A patient shall not be taken into custody under this section after the
expiration of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the first day of
his absence without leave; and a patient who has not returned or been taken
into custody under this section within that period shall cease to be liable to
be detained or subject to guardianship, as the case may be, at the expiration
of that period.

(4) In this Act "absent without leave" means absent from any hospital or other
place and liable to be taken into custody and returned under this section.


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