http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/2/paragraph/9Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016An Act to make new provision relating to persons who lack capacity; to make provision about the powers of criminal courts in respect of persons with disorder; to disapply Part 2 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 in relation to persons aged 16 or over and make other amendments of that Order; to make provision in connection with the Convention on the International Protection of Adults signed at the Hague on 13th January 2000; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2022-07-25Expert Participation2022-04-01 SCHEDULESSCHEDULE 2Authorisation of short-term detention in hospital for examination <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation> Part 3 Events terminating the authorisation<Emphasis>Expiry where failure to admit P within period required</Emphasis>91If—aat the time when a report under paragraph 2 is made P is not already an in-patient in the hospital specified in the report, andbat the end of the period allowed for admission P has not been admitted to that hospital,the expiry of that period is an event which terminates the authorisation.2In this paragraph “the period allowed for admission” means—atwo days beginning with the date when the medical report under paragraph 4 was made; orbsuch longer period, not exceeding 14 days beginning with that date, as a medical practitioner who meets prescribed conditions may (before the end of the period mentioned in head (a)) certify to be necessary because of exceptional circumstances.3A certificate under sub-paragraph (2)(b) must be in the prescribed form and include prescribed information.Sch. 2 para. 9 in operation at 2.12.2019 for specified purposes by S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(4), Sch. Pt. 4 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)
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