Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981
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Place of detention. |
17.—(1) Subject to sections 29 and 31 , it shall not be lawful to detain a person under this Act elsewhere than in a district psychiatric centre designated for the area in which he ordinarily resides or in a registered psychiatric centre approved in respect of such an area or generally. | |
(2) Subsection (1) shall not prevent the admission of a person as a temporary arrangement pending his transfer to a designated centre or the admission of a person as the private patient of an authorised medical practitioner. |