MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 69 Control of private hospitals.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 69

Control of private hospitals.

69.(1) It shall be the duty of any person carrying on a private hospital

(a)to keep the hospital open to inspection in pursuance of this section at all
reasonable times;

(b)to keep such registers and records as the Ministry may by regulations
prescribe, and to keep those registers and records open to inspection;

(c)to ensure that any conditions specified in the certificate of registration
are complied with;

(d)to afford to [the High Court] and the Review Tribunal all such facilities
as are necessary for [them] to exercise their functions under this Act;

(2) It shall be the duty of the Ministry to ensure by regular inspection of
any private hospital that that hospital is being properly carried on, and for
the purpose of making an inspection in pursuance of this section, any person
authorised in that behalf by the Ministry may, after producing, if asked to do
so, some duly authenticated document showing that he is so authorised, enter
and inspect any premises which are used, or which he reasonably believes to be
used, for the purposes of a private hospital.

(3) Any person authorised under sub-section (2) may interview any patient in
private.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 69