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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 57

Provisions as to certain forces' patients.

57.(1) This section applies to any person who, by virtue of any of the
following enactments, that is to say

(b)section one hundred and sixteen of the Army Act, 1955;

(c)section one hundred and sixteen of the Air Force Act, 1955;

(d)section sixty-three of the Naval Discipline Act, 1957;

(2) The Minister may by warrant direct that any person to whom this section
applies shall be detained in such hospital as may be specified in the warrant
and, where that person is not already in the hospital, give directions for his
removal there.

(3) A direction under this section in respect of any person shall have the
like effect as a hospital order together with an order restricting his
discharge, made without limitation of time; and where such a direction is
given in respect of a person while he is in the hospital, he shall be deemed
to be admitted in pursuance of, and on the date of, the direction.

Removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment, etc.

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