MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 59
Police assistance
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2007 - SECT 59
Police assistance
59 Police assistance
(1) A police officer to whose notice a breach order is brought must, if
practicable--
(a) apprehend and take or assist in taking the person the
subject of the order to the mental health facility, or
(b) cause or make
arrangements for some other police officer to do so.
(2) A police officer may
enter premises to apprehend a person under this section, and may apprehend any
such person, without a warrant and may exercise any powers conferred by
section 81 on a person who is authorised under that section to take a person
to a mental health facility or another health facility.
