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PART XIV.
Reception Orders.
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Chapter I.
Chargeable Patient Reception Orders.
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Application for recommendation for reception.
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162.—(1) Where it is desired to have a person received and detained as a person of unsound mind and as a chargeable patient in the district mental hospital for the mental hospital district in which he ordinarily resides, application in the prescribed form may be made to the authorised medical officer for a recommendation (in this Act referred to as a recommendation for reception) for the reception and detention of such person as a person of unsound mind in such district mental hospital.
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(2) An application for a recommendation for reception 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) at the request of the husband or wife or a relative of such person, by the appropriate assistance officer, or
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(c) subject to the provisions of the next following sub-section, by any other person.
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(3) Where an application for a recommendation for reception is not made by the husband or wife or a relative of the person to whom the application relates or, at the request of the husband or wife or a relative of such person, by the appropriate assistance officer, the application shall contain a statement of the reasons why it is not so made, of the connection of the applicant with the person to whom the application relates, and of the circumstances in which the application is made.
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(4) An application for a recommendation for reception 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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(5) An application for a recommendation for reception 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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