SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Mental health: Northern Ireland

F1PART 1Introductory provision etc

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Interpretation

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1

In this Schedule—

  • the 1986 Order” means the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4));

  • the 1986 Regulations” means the Mental Health (Nurses, Guardianship, Consent to Treatment and Prescribed Forms) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 (S.R. (N.I.) 1986 No. 174);

  • the Department of Health” means the Department of Health in Northern Ireland;

  • an “RQIA practitioner” means a medical practitioner appointed for the purposes of Part 2 of the 1986 Order by RQIA.

2

In this Schedule—

a

references to Articles are to Articles of the 1986 Order;

b

references to Forms are to the Forms set out in the Schedule to the 1986 Regulations.

3

Expressions used in this Schedule and in the 1986 Order have the meaning given in that Order.

Prescribed forms

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Where any form prescribed for use in connection with a provision of the 1986 Order is inconsistent with a modification made by Part 2 of this Schedule, the form—

a

may, in connection with the provision as so modified, be used with appropriate amendments;

b

is otherwise, for use in that connection, to be read with such amendments as are necessary to reflect the modification.