Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Section 24 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
24—(1) This section applies where the act mentioned in section 9(1) amounts to, or is one of a number of acts that together amount to, a deprivation of P's liberty.
(2) Section 9(2) (protection from liability) applies to the act only if—
(a)the deprivation of P's liberty consists of—
(i)the detention of P, in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty, in a place in which care or treatment is available for P; or
(ii)related detention;
(b)the detention in question is authorised; and
(c)the prevention of serious harm condition (as well as the conditions of section 9(1)(c) and (d), and any other conditions that apply under this Part) is met.
(3) Subsection (2)(b) does not apply where the situation is an emergency (see section 65).
(4) See section 25 for—
(a)the meaning of “related detention” and of detention being “authorised”;
(b)the prevention of serious harm condition.
(5) In this Part any reference to an act which is one of a number of acts that together amount to a deprivation of P's liberty includes (in particular) where P is detained in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty, instructing another person to carry out or continue the detention.
Commencement Information
I1S. 24 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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