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Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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Loss of capacity during research project: transitional casesN.I.

138—(1) This section applies where a person who is 16 or over (“P”)—

(a)consented to take part in a research project begun before the coming into operation of section 132; and

(b)before the conclusion of the project, loses capacity to consent to continue to take part in it.

(2) Regulations may provide that, despite P's loss of capacity, research of a prescribed kind may be carried out on, or in relation to, P if—

(a)the project satisfies prescribed requirements;

(b)any information or material relating to P which is used in the research is of a prescribed description and was obtained before P's loss of capacity; and

(c)the person conducting the project takes in relation to P such steps as may be prescribed for the purpose of protecting P.

(3) The regulations may in particular—

(a)make provision about when, for the purposes of the regulations, a project is to be treated as having begun;

(b)include provision similar to any made by sections 134 to 137.

Commencement Information

I1S. 138 in operation at 1.10.2019 for specified purposes by S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)

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