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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 110

Admission of patients to specified hospitals.

110.(1) Where an application for admission, duly completed in accordance with
Part II, is made in respect of any patient, [the Ministry] may by order in
writing direct that that patient shall be admitted to any hospital specified
in the order.

(2) Where [the Ministry] issue an order under sub-section (1)

(a)sub-section (2) of section thirty-one shall apply in relation to
the patient as if he had been transferred to the hospital specified in the
order in pursuance of sub-section (1) of that section; and

(b)it shall be the duty of the [Health and Social Services Board
administering] the hospital specified in the order to admit the patient to
that hospital.

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