Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c. 9)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE A1 E+W [F1 Hospital and care home residents: deprivation of liberty]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A1 omitted (16.5.2019 for specified purposes) by virtue of Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (c. 18), s. 6(3), Sch. 2 para. 2(c)

[F1 Part 4 E+W Standard authorisations

Eligibility assessment E+W

46 E+W An eligibility assessment is an assessment of whether the relevant person meets the eligibility requirement.

47 (1) Regulations may— E+W

(a) require an eligibility assessor to request a best interests assessor to provide relevant eligibility information, and

(b) require the best interests assessor, if such a request is made, to provide such relevant eligibility information as he may have.

(2) In this paragraph—

• “best interests assessor” means any person who is carrying out, or has carried out, a best interests assessment in relation to the relevant person;

• “eligibility assessor” means a person carrying out an eligibility assessment in relation to the relevant person;

• “relevant eligibility information” is information relevant to assessing whether or not the relevant person is ineligible by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1A.]