Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981

Disqualification of registered medical practitioner in relation to particular person.

14.—A registered medical practitioner shall, for the purposes of sections 15 , 16 , and 19 , be disqualified in relation to a person—

(a) if the practitioner is the husband or wife, father, stepfather or father-in-law, mother, stepmother or mother-in-law, son, stepson or son-in-law, daughter, stepdaughter or daughter-in-law, brother, stepbrother or brother-in-law, sister, stepsister or sister-in-law or the uncle, aunt, nephew or niece by consanguinity or affinity or guardian or trustee of the person, or

(b) if the practitioner is employed in or by the psychiatric centre in which it is desired to have the person received or has charge of patients in the centre, or

(c) where the centre is a registered psychiatric centre, if the practitioner is a member of the governing body of or is the person carrying on or in charge of that psychiatric centre.