Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981
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Effect of recommendation for reception. |
22.—(1) Where a recommendation for reception is made, the applicant for the recommendation or any person authorised by him or, in the case of a recommendation for reception made pursuant to section 16 , any member of the Garda Síochána or an escort authorised under section 21 may, subject to this section, bring the person to whom the recommendation relates to a psychiatric centre. | |
(2) Where the person is not brought to a centre within 7 days after the day on which the recommendation is made, the recommendation shall, subject to subsection (3), cease to have effect. | ||
(3) Where, within the period of 7 days, one of the medical practitioners making the recommendation certifies that the person will not be fit to be removed until after the expiration of that period the recommendation shall not cease to have effect on the expiration of that period but, if the person is not brought within a further 7 days to a psychiatric centre, the recommendation shall then cease to have effect. |