Mental Treatment Act, 1961

Amendment of section 185 of Principal Act.

17.—(1) The following subsection is hereby inserted after subsection (3) of section 185 of the Principal Act:

“(3A) An application under this section shall not be made unless the applicant is at least twenty-one years of age.”

(2) The following subsection is hereby substituted for subsection (6) of section 185 of the Principal Act:

“(6) (a) Where an application for a temporary private patient reception order is made, the appropriate person, after having considered the application and the medical certificate accompanying it may make the order in the prescribed form.

(b) In paragraph (a) of this subsection “the appropriate person” means—

(i) in case the person in charge of the approved institution is a registered medical practitioner—that person, and

(ii) in any other case—the chief medical officer of the approved institution or, where the approved institution is for the reception of one person only, the medical attendant of the person to whom the application relates.”