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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1993 - SECT 14

14—Duty of director of an approved treatment centre in relation to detention orders

        (1)         The director of an approved treatment centre is, subject to subsection (2), authorised and required to comply with an order under this Part.

        (2)         Where an order is made for the admission and detention of a patient in an approved treatment centre and the director is of the opinion that proper facilities do not exist at the centre for the care or treatment of the patient, the director may decline to admit the patient to the centre but, in that case, he or she must (unless the order for detention is discharged) forthwith make arrangements for the admission of the patient into another approved treatment centre.



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