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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Mental Health
Made
15th April 2021
Coming into operation
10th May 2021
1. This Order may be cited as the Mental Health (1986 Order) (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 10th May 2021.
2. In Article 64(1)(b)( 3), for “six months” substitute “three months”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 15th April 2021.
(L.S.)
Mark Lee
A senior officer of the Department of Health.
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the length of the period which must elapse for a second opinion to be required for the continued administration of medicine to detained patients from six months to three months.
2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s1(5)
Article 64(1)(b) was amended by S.R. 2020 No. 46& 142and S.R. 2021 No. 8
