[21 Special provisions as to patients absent without leave]
Mental Health Act 1983 (1983 c 20) | Legislation

[21  Special provisions as to patients absent without leave]

[(1)     Where a patient is absent without leave—

(a)     on the day on which (apart from this section) he would cease to be liable to be detained or subject to guardianship under this Part of this Act [or, in the case of a community patient, the community treatment order would cease to be in force]; or

(b)     within the period of one week ending with that day,

he shall not cease to be so liable or subject[, or the order shall not cease to be in force,] until the relevant time.

(2)     For the purposes of subsection (1) above the relevant time—

(a)

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