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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Mental Health
Made
25th March 2020
Coming into operation
30th March 2020
1. This Order may be cited as the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2020 and shall come into operation on 30th March 2020.
2. In Article 64(1)(b), for "three months" substitute "six months".
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 25th March 2020.
(L.S.)
Mark Lee
A senior officer of the Department of Health.
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the length of the period which must elapse for a second opinion to be required for the continued administration of medicine to detained patients from three months to six months.
2016 c. 5 (NI), s1(5)