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Reception and detention of person.
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23.—(1) Where a person is brought to a psychiatric centre in accordance with the provisions of this Act the person shall be received in the psychiatric centre by a medical officer of the centre who shall examine the person as soon as may be after the arrival of the person at the centre.
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(2) For the purposes of examination and assessment by an authorised medical practitioner or practitioners the medical officer who examined the person may make an order in the prescribed form detaining the person in the centre for a period not exceeding 48 hours after his arrival.
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(3) Within the period specified at subsection (2) an authorised medical practitioner of the psychiatric centre shall either—
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(a) make an order in the prescribed form (in this Part referred to as a reception order) that the person shall be received, detained and treated in the centre, or
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(b) discharge the person.
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