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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 23

Detention on request of relative or friend

23 Detention on request of relative or friend

(1) A person may be detained in a hospital (other than an authorised hospital) on a written request made by a relative or friend of the person to the medical superintendent.
(2) The medical superintendent may not detain any such person unless the medical superintendent is satisfied that, because of the distance required to be travelled in order to have the person examined by a medical practitioner and the urgency of the circumstances, it is not reasonably practicable to seek to have the person detained under section 21.



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