The Mental Health (1986 Order) (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 No. 142

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2020 No. 142

Mental Health

The Mental Health (1986 Order) (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

15th July 2020

Coming into operation

10th August 2020

The Department of Health(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 64(2) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(2), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Mental Health (1986 Order) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2020 and shall come into operation on 10th August 2020.

Amendment of Article 64(1)(b) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

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 July 2020.

(L.S.)

Mark Lee

A senior officer of the Department of Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(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.

(1)

2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s1(5)

(2)

S.I. 1986/595 (NI 4)

(3)

Article 64(1)(b) was amended by S.R. 2020 No. 46