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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 26

Visiting and examination of patients.

26. For the purpose of advising whether an application to the Review Tribunal
should be made by or in respect of a patient who is liable to be detained or
subject to guardianship under this Part, or of furnishing information as to
the condition of a patient for the purposes of such an application, or of
advising as to the exercise by the nearest relative of any such patient of any
power to order his discharge, any medical practitioner authorised by or on
behalf of the patient or other person who is entitled to make or has made the
application, or by the nearest relative of the patient, as the case may be,
may, at any reasonable time, visit the patient and examine him in private.

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