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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 56

Bringing of certain temporary patients before the Tribunal

56 Bringing of certain temporary patients before the Tribunal

(1) If it appears that a temporary patient will, immediately before the expiration of the period of detention directed in respect of the patient under section 51, continue to be detained in a hospital as a temporary patient after the period has expired, the medical superintendent is required, as soon as practicable before the expiration of that period, to cause the patient to be brought before the Tribunal.
(2) The medical superintendent is to ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, a temporary patient is, when brought before the Tribunal, dressed in street clothes.



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