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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 206 Application for consent

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 206

Application for consent

206 Application for consent

(1) At any time after the expiration of 14 days from the date on which notice in respect of a patient or other person is given under section 205, the medical superintendent may make an application referred to in that section.
(2) An application in respect of a patient or other person is to be made:
(a) if the nearest relative of the patient or other person agrees, in writing, to the performance of the surgical operation or the treatment being carried out--to an authorised officer, or
(b) if the nearest relative of the patient or other person does not agree, in writing, to the performance of the surgical operation or to the treatment being carried out or there is no nearest relative of the patient or other person--to the Tribunal.