Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Act 2020

Relocation day

2. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) the Minister shall, by order, appoint a day to be the relocation day for the purposes of this Act.

(2) An order under subsection (1) shall include a true copy of the deposited map.

(3) Before making an order under subsection (1), the Minister shall consult the Minister for Justice and the Mental Health Commission.

(4) The psychiatric centre, situated within the National Forensic Mental Health Service, Portrane, County Dublin, comprising the area consisting of the lands identified within the inner margins of the red lines, hatched in red and marked “Central Mental Hospital” on the deposited map, shall, on and after the relocation day, be known as the Central Mental Hospital.

(5) References to the Central Mental Hospital or Central Mental Hospital Dundrum (howsoever described) in any enactment (other than this Act), court order or other document made prior to the relocation day shall, on and after that day, be construed as references to the psychiatric centre, situated at the National Forensic Mental Health Service, Portrane, County Dublin, and known as the Central Mental Hospital.

(6) In this section—

“enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005 ;

“deposited map” means the map deposited for the purposes of this Act by, or on behalf of, the Minister at the offices of the Department of Health, Miesian Plaza, 50 to 58 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, and that—

(a) is sealed with the Official Seal of the Minister, and

(b) is described as having been deposited for that purpose.