Mental Health Act 2008

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Acts done or purporting to have been done pursuant to unexpired and expired renewal orders.

6.— (1) Every act done or purporting to have been done pursuant to an unexpired renewal order or an expired renewal order shall be deemed to be valid and effective and always to have been valid and effective notwithstanding either of the following matters:

(a) that the consultant psychiatrist failed to consider when making the order that he or she had the discretion to extend or further extend the period referred to in section 15(1) of the Act of 2001 for a lesser period than the maximum period concerned specified in section 15(2) or (3) of that Act; or

(b) that the order did not specify a period during which the order was to remain in force or a date on which the order was to expire.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not be construed as preventing an act referred to in that subsection from being invalid or ineffective by reason of matters other than the matters referred to in that subsection.