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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 97

Transfer of mentally ill prisoners to hospitals

97 Transfer of mentally ill prisoners to hospitals

(1) If it appears to the Chief Health Officer on the certificates, in the form set out in Schedule 3, of 2 medical practitioners, one of whom is a psychiatrist, that a person imprisoned in a prison is a mentally ill person, the Chief Health Officer may order that the person be transferred to a hospital.
(2) The Chief Health Officer must notify the Tribunal in writing of any order made under this section.



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