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Section 6.
1(1)An order for admission to hospital under section 6 or section 14 of this Act shall be sufficient authority for any person acting under the authority of the Secretary of State to take the person to whom the order relates and convey him at any time within the relevant period to the hospital specified by the Secretary of State.
(2)The relevant period for the purposes of this paragraph is—
(a)in relation to an order under section 6 or 14(1), two months;
(b)in relation to an order under section 14(2), seven days;
the said period to begin in either case with the date on which the order was made.
(3)Where a person is admitted within the relevant period to the hospital specified by the Secretary of State, the order under section 6 or, as the case may be, section 14 shall be sufficient authority for the managers to detain him in accordance with the provisions of [F1the Mental Health Act 1983] referred to in the following paragraphs, as those provisions apply by virtue of those paragraphs.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 4 para. 23(k)
2A person who is admitted to hospital in pursuance of an order under section 6 or 14(1) of this Act shall be treated for the purposes of [F2the Mental Health Act 1983] as if he had been so admitted in pursuance of a hospital order made (on the date of the order made under section 6 or 14(1)) under [F2section 37] of that Act together with [F3a restriction order] made under [F4section 41] of that Act without limitation of time.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 4 para. 23(l)
F3Words substituted by Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 51, SIF 85), Sch. 3 para. 41(a)
F4Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 4 para. 23(l)
3A person who is admitted to a hospital in pursuance of an order under section 14(2) of this Act shall be treated for the purposes of [F5Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983 as if he had been admitted (on the date of the order made under section 14(2)) in pursuance of an application for admission for [F6assessment] duly made under [F7the said Part II].
Textual Amendments
F5Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 4 para. 23(m)
F6Word substituted by Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 51, SIF 85), Sch. 3 para. 41(b)
F7Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), Sch. 4 para. 23(m)
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