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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 15

15.(1) In any case of urgent necessity an application for admission (in
this Act referred to as "an emergency application") may be made by [a
social worker] or any relative of a patient in accordance with sub-sections
(2) and (3).

(2) An emergency application shall be founded on a
recommendation for admission in the prescribed form which shall include (in
addition to the matters referred to in section twelve) a statement that by
reason of the mental disorder from which the patient is suffering it is of
urgent necessity for him to be admitted to hospital in pursuance of an
application under section twelve, but that compliance with all the provisions
of this Part relating to such an application would involve undesirable delay.

(3) An emergency application shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a
period of seven days beginning with the day on which the patient is admitted
to hospital unless the [Health and Social Services Board administering] the
hospital where the patient is detained receive the medical report mentioned in
section nineteen within that period.

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