MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 75 Pay, pensions, etc., of patients.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 75

Pay, pensions, etc., of patients.

75.(1) Where any payment falls to be made to any person by way of pay or
pension or otherwise in connection with the service or employment of that or
any other person, and the payment falls to be made directly out of moneys
provided by Parliament or the Consolidated Fund, or other moneys administered
by or under the control or supervision of a Government department, the
authority by whom the sum in question is payable, if satisfied after
considering medical evidence that the person to whom it is payable (in this
section referred to as "the patient") is incapable by reason of
mental disorder of managing and administering his property and affairs, may,
instead of paying the sum to the patient, apply it in accordance with
sub-section (2).

(2) Unless a committee, receiver or guardian has been appointed in Northern
Ireland in respect of the patient's estate, the authority may pay the sum or
such part thereof as they think fit to the institution or person having the
care of the patient, to be applied for his benefit, and may pay the remainder,
if any, or such part thereof as they think fit

(a)to or for the benefit of persons who appear to the authority to be members
of the patient's family or other persons for whom the patient might be
expected to provide if he were not mentally disordered; or

(b)in reimbursement, with or without interest, of money applied by any person
either in payment of the patient's debts (whether legally enforceable or not)
or for the maintenance or other benefit of the patient or such persons as are
mentioned in paragraph (a).

The Mental Health Review Tribunal for Northern Ireland.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 75