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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 98

Transfer of other prisoners to hospitals

98 Transfer of other prisoners to hospitals

(1) Without affecting section 97, 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 suffering from a mental condition for which treatment is available in a hospital, the Chief Health Officer may, with the consent in writing of the person, 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.
(3) This section does not apply to a person who is a mentally ill person or who has a developmental disability of mind.



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