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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 106

Mentally disordered persons found in public places.

106.(1) If a constable finds in a place to which the public have access a
person who appears to him to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in
immediate need of care or control, the constable may, if he thinks it
necessary to do so in the interests of that person or for the protection of
other persons, remove that person to a place of safety within the meaning of
section one hundred and five.

(2) A person removed to a place of safety under this section may be detained
there for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours for the purpose of enabling
him to be examined by a medical practitioner and to be interviewed by a
[social worker] and of making any necessary arrangements for his care or
treatment.

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