Part VI Removal and Return of Patients Within United Kingdom, etc.
Return of patients absent without leave
87 Patients absent from hospitals in Northern Ireland.
1
Any person who—
a
under F1Article 29 or 132 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (which provide, respectively, for the retaking of patients absent without leave and for the retaking of patients escaping from custody); or
b
under the said F1Article 29 as applied by Article 31 of the said Order(which makes special provision as to persons sentenced to imprisonment),
may be taken into custody in Northern Ireland, may be taken into custody in, and returned to Northern Ireland from, England and Wales by an approved social worker, by any constable or by any person authorised by or by virtue of the F1said Order to take him into custody.
2
This section does not apply to any person who is subject to guardianship.