135 Warrant to search for and remove patients
Mental Health Act 1983 (1983 c 20) | Legislation

135  Warrant to search for and remove patients

(1)     If it appears to a justice of the peace, on information on oath laid by an [approved mental health professional], that there is reasonable cause to suspect that a person believed to be suffering from mental disorder—

(a)     has been, or is being, ill-treated, neglected or kept otherwise than under proper control, in any place within the jurisdiction of the justice, or

(b)     being unable to care for himself, is living alone in any such place,

the justice may issue a warrant authorising any constable . . . to enter, if need be by force, any premises specified in the warrant in which that person is believed to be, and, if thought fit, to remove him to a place of safety with a view to the making of an application in respect of him under Part II of this Act, or of other arrangements for his treatment or care.

[(1A)     If the premises specified in the warrant are a place of safety, the constable executing the warrant may, instead of removing the person to another place of safety, keep the person at those premises for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1).]

(2)

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