Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Disclosure of previous application for private patient reception order.

180.—(1) Where, subsequent to the refusal of an application for a private patient reception order, any further application for a private patient reception order is made in relation to the same person, the applicant, so far as he is aware of the facts relating to the previous application and its refusal, shall state those facts to the registered medical practitioner to whom he makes the application.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of sub-section (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.