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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 8

8.(1) Where it appears

(a)to any medical practitioner who has examined a person; or

(b)to a [Health and Social Services Board] with respect to any person;

[(i)where the person has attained the age of two years but has not attained
the upper limit of compulsory school age, the medical practitioner or, as the
case may be, that Board shall forthwith notify the Education and Library Board
for the area in which the person is ordinarily resident,

(ii)in any other case

(aa)the medical practitioner shall notify, in the prescribed form, that Board;

(bb)that Board shall proceed under section 9 to ascertain if the person
requires special care.]

(2) Where [an Education and Library Board or a
Health and Social Services Board receives a notification under subsection (1),
it] shall

(a)where the person referred to in the notification is under the [upper limit
of compulsory school age], notify his nearest relative;

(b)where the person referred to in the notification has attained the [upper
limit of compulsory school age], notify that person and his nearest relative.

[(3) In this section "Education and Library Board" has the same meaning as in
the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.]

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