Mental Health
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the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer or other person named in the warrant to enter the premises and remove the patient.
(2) If it appears to a magistrate, on information on oath laid by an approved social worker, 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; or
(b) is in need of care or control and, in his own interests or for the protection of other persons, may need to be taken to a place of safety,
the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer or other person named in the warrant to enter 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.
(3) In the execution of a warrant issued under subsection (1) or (2) the person named in the warrant-
(a) shall, unless he is an approved social worker or a community psychiatric nurse, be accompanied by an approved social worker or by a community psychiatric nurse; and
(b) may use such reasonable force as may be necessary to enter the premises and remove the patient.
(4) In this section, a "place of safety" means the accident and emergency department of any general hospital.
(Added 46 of 1988 s. 30)
71B. Mentally disordered persons found in need of care or control
(1) If a police officer finds in any place a person whom he reasonably believes to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control, the officer may, notwithstanding the provisions of section 51 of the Police Force Ordinance (Cap. 232), take that person into custody and remove him forthwith to a place of safety if the officer thinks it necessary to do so in the interests of that person or for the protection of other persons.
(2) A person who is in, or is removed under this section to, a place of safety may be detained there for a period not exceeding 24 hours for the purpose of enabling him to be examined by a registered medical practitioner and of making necessary arrangements for his treatment and care.
(3) Such force as is reasonably necessary may be used for the purposes of taking a person into custody and removing him to a place of safety, and for detaining him there, under this section.
(4) In this section a "place of safety" means the accident and emergency department of any general hospital.
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Mental Health
[1989 Ed.
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the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer or other person named in the warrant to enter the premises and remove the patient.
(2) If it appears to a magistrate, on information on oath laid by an approved social worker, 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; or
(b) is in need of care or control and, in his own interests or for the protection of other persons, may need to be taken to a place of safety,
the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer or other person named in the warrant to enter 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.
(3) In the execution of a warrant issued under subsection (1) or (2) the person named in the warrant-
(a) shall, unless he is an approved social worker or a community psychiatric nurse, be accompanied by an approved social worker or by a community psychiatric nurse; and
(b) may use such reasonable force as may be necessary to enter the
premises and remove the patient.
(4) In this section, a "place of safety" means the accident and emergency department of any general hospital.
( Added 46 of 1988 s. 30)
71B. Mentally disordered persons found
in need of care or control
(1) If a police officer finds in any place a person whom he reasonably believes to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control, the officer may, notwithstanding the provisions of section 51 of the Police Force Ordinance (Cap. 232), take that person into custody and remove him forthwith to a place of safty if the officer thinks it necessary to do so in the interests of that person or for the protection of other persons.
(2) A person who is in, or is removed under this section to, a place of safety may be detained there for a period not exceeding 24 hours for the purpose of enabling him to be examined by a registered medical practitioner and of making necessary arrangements for his treatment and care.
(3) Such force as is reasonably necessary may be used for the purposes of taking a person into custody and removing him to a place of safety, and for detaining him there, under this section.
(4) In this section a "place of safety" means the accident and emergency department of any general hospital.
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