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Transfer of involuntarily admitted child to hospital or other place in certain circumstances
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79. (1) A clinical director of a registered acute mental health centre may arrange for the transfer of an involuntarily admitted child detained in that centre to a hospital or other place, other than a registered acute mental health centre, for the purposes of receiving treatment and for his or her detention there for that purpose.
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(2) A child who is transferred under subsection (1) may be kept at the hospital or other place so long as is necessary for the purpose of his or her treatment, but no longer than the expiry of the involuntary admission order or any subsequent renewal order pursuant to which he or she is detained, and shall then be taken immediately back to the registered acute mental health centre from which he or she was transferred.
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(3) The detention of a child in a hospital or other place, other than a registered acute mental health centre, under this section shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be detention in the registered acute mental health centre from which he or she was transferred.
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