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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 33

Special provisions as to patients absent without leave.

33.(1) If on the day on which, apart from this section, a patient would cease
to be liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under this Part or,
within the period of twenty-one days ending with that day, the patient is
absent without leave, he shall not cease to be so liable or subject

(a)in any case, until the expiration of the period during which he can be
taken into custody under section thirty, or the day on which he returns or is
returned to the hospital or place where he ought to be, whichever is the
earlier; and

(b)if he returns or is returned as aforesaid within the period during which he
can be taken into custody under section thirty, until the expiration of the
period of twenty-one days beginning with the day on which he returns or is
returned as aforesaid.

(2) Where the period for which a patient is liable to be detained or subject
to guardianship is extended by virtue of this section, any examination to be
made, or report to be furnished, under section thirty-two may be made or
furnished within that period as so extended.

(3) Where the authority for detention or guardianship of a patient is renewed
by virtue of this section after the day on which, apart from this section,
that authority would have expired under this Part, the renewal shall take
effect as from that day.


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