C1C2Part II Compulsory Admission to Hospital and Guardianship

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F13Duration of authority and discharge

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S. 20: cross-heading substituted (3.11.2008) by virtue of Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 32(3), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(i) (with art. 3, Sch.)

24 Visiting and examination of patients.

1

For the purpose of advising as to the exercise by the nearest relative of a patient who is liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under this Part of this Act F1, or who is a community patient, of any power to order his discharge, any registered medical practitioner F2or approved clinician authorised by or on behalf of the nearest relative of the patient may, at any reasonable time, visit the patient and examine him in private.

2

Any registered medical practitioner F2or approved clinician authorised for the purposes of subsection (1) above to visit and examine a patient may require the production of and inspect any records relating to the detention or treatment of the patient in any hospital F3or to any after-care services provided for the patient under section 117 below..

3

Where application is made by the Secretary of State or a F4F5Local Health Board , Special Health Authority F6, Primary Care Trust F7, National Health Service trust or NHS foundation trust to exercise F8any power under section 23(3) above to make an order for a patient's discharge , the following persons, that is to say—

a

any registered medical practitioner F2or approved clinician authorised by the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, that F4F5Local Health Board , Special Health Authority F6, Primary Care TrustF7, National Health Service trust or NHS foundation trust; and

b

any other person (whether a registered medical practitioner F2or approved clinician or not) authorised under F9Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000F14or Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to inspect F10the establishment in question ,

may at any reasonable time visit the patient and interview him in private.

4

Any person authorised for the purposes of subsection (3) above to visit a patient may require the production of and inspect any documents constituting or alleged to constitute the authority for the detention of the patient F11, or (as the case may be) for his liability to recall, under this Part of this Act; and any person so authorised, who is a registered medical practitioner F2or approved clinician , may examine the patient in private, and may require the production of and inspect any other records relating to the treatment of the patient in F12the establishmentF3or to any after-care services provided for the patient under section 117 below..