Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981

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Escort.

21.—(1) Where a registered medical practitioner making a recommendation for reception of a person certifies that an escort is required to ensure that the person is safely brought to a psychiatric centre, the medical officer in charge of the centre shall arrange for the escort of the patient.

(2) The medical officer in charge of a psychiatric centre to which it is proposed to convey a person, to whom a recommendation for reception relates, may if he thinks it necessary request the assistance of the Garda Síochána in arranging such an escort.

(3) The Garda Síochána shall, if so requested, provide the escort.