Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Certificate by registered medical practitioners making private-patient reception order that escort is necessary, etc.

183.—(1) Where the registered medical practitioners making a private patient reception order certify that the case is one in which an escort is required to ensure the safe conveyance of the person to whom the order relates, the person to whom the certificate is issued may present it to the member of the Gárda Síochána in charge of any Gárda Síochána station and thereupon that member shall arrange for such escort as may be necessary.

(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to any expenses incurred by the Gárda Síochána in providing an escort under this section:—

(a) such expenses shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas,

(b) such expenses shall be repaid to the Minister for Justice by the applicant for the escort and, in default of being so repaid, shall be recoverable as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction,

(c) any amount so repaid or recovered shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in accordance with the directions of the Minister for Finance.