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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 11

Exemptions in respect of s.10.

11.(1) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under sub-section (3) of
section ten if his failure to comply with a notice given to him under
sub-section (1) of that section was due to a reasonable cause within the
meaning of this section.

(2) For the purposes of this section any of the following shall be held to be
a reasonable cause, that is to say

(a)the child has been prevented by sickness from attending the centre named in
the notice to which the charge relates;

(b)the child has not attended the centre on any day exclusively set apart for
religious observance by the religious body to which the person to whom notice
has been given belongs;

(c)it is not reasonably practicable for the child to make his own way, or to
be taken by or on behalf of the person to whom notice has been given, to and
from the centre, and suitable arrangements have not been made by the [Health
and Social Services Board] either for his transport to and from the centre or
for residential accommodation for him at or near the centre;

(d)the child has not a fixed abode, and the person to whom notice has been
given is engaged in a trade or business of such a nature as to require him to
travel from place to place, and the child has attended at the centre as
regularly as the nature of the trade or business of that person permits;

(e)there are other circumstances which in the opinion of the [Ministry] or the
court afford a reasonable excuse.

S.11A rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18

Admission to hospital.

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