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Chapter II.
Private Patient Reception Orders.
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Application for private patient reception order.
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177.—(1) Where it is desired to have a person received and detained as a person of unsound mind in a private institution, an authorised institution, or a private charitable institution, application may be made in the prescribed form to a registered medical practitioner for an order (in this Act referred to as a private patient reception order) to have such person received and detained as a person of unsound mind in such institution.
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(2) Where it is desired to have a person received and detained as a person of unsound mind and as a private patient in a district mental hospital, application may be made in the prescribed form to a registered medical practitioner for an order (in this Act also referred to as a private patient reception order) to have such patient received and detained as a person of unsound mind in such hospital.
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(3) An application for a private patient reception order may be made—
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(a) by the husband or wife or a relative of the person to whom the application relates, or
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(b) subject to the provisions of the next following sub-section, by any other person.
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(4) Where an application for a private patient reception order is not made by the husband or wife or a relative of the person to whom the application relates, the application shall contain a statement of the reasons why it is not so made, of the connection of the applicant with such person, and of the circumstances in which the application is made.
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(5) An application for a private patient reception order shall not be made unless the applicant is at least twenty-one years of age and has, within fourteen days before making the application, seen the person to whom the application relates.
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(6) An application for a private patient reception order shall be accompanied by a statement of particulars relative to the person to whom the application relates in the prescribed form.
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