MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 66



66.(1) In this Part

"child" and "young person" have the same meaning as in the Children and Young
Persons Act (Northern Ireland), [1968];

"civil prisoner" has the meaning assigned by paragraph (f) of sub-section (2)
of section fifty-nine;

"guardian", in relation to a child or young person, has the same meaning as in
the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland), [1968];

"the Minister" has the meaning assigned by paragraph (c) of sub-section (3) of
section fifty-three;

"place of safety", in relation to a person not being a child or young person,
means any Royal Ulster Constabulary station or prison, or any hospital [of
which the administering Health and Social Services Board is] willing
temporarily to receive him, and in relation to a child or young person has the
same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland),
[1968];

"remand home" means a remand home registered under [Part IX] of the Children
and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland, [1968];

"training school" means a school approved under [section one hundred and
thirty-seven] of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland),
[1968].

(2) Any reference in this Part to an offence punishable on summary conviction
with imprisonment shall be construed without regard to any prohibition or
restriction imposed by or under any enactment on the imprisonment of children
and young persons.

(3) Where a patient who is liable to be detained in a hospital in pursuance of
an order or direction under this Part is treated by virtue of any provision of
this Part as if he had been admitted to the hospital in pursuance of a
subsequent order or direction or a subsequent application for admission under
Part II, he shall be treated as if the subsequent order, direction or
application had described him as suffering from the form or forms of
mental disorder specified in the earlier order or direction or, where he is
treated as if he had been so admitted by virtue of a direction under
sub-section (1) of section fifty-four, such form of mental disorder as may be
specified in the direction under that sub-section.

(4) In the following provisions

sub-sections (2) to (7) of section fifty-one;

sub-sections (3) to (5) of section fifty-three; and

section fifty-four;

(5) References in this Part to persons serving a sentence of imprisonment
shall be construed in accordance with sub-section (6) of section fifty-eight.

(6) References in this Part to courts of summary jurisdiction do not include
references to justices of the peace sitting out of petty sessions to hear and
determine any charge.

(7) [Section one hundred and seventy-four] of the Children and Young Persons
Act (Northern Ireland), [1968] (which relates to the presumption and
determination of age), shall apply for the purposes of this Part as it applies
for the purposes of that Act.

Registration of private hospitals.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 66