Mental Health Act, 2001
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Treatment of children in respect of whom an order under section 25 is in force. |
61.—Where medicine has been administered to a child in respect of whom an order under section 25 is in force for the purposes of ameliorating his or her mental disorder for a continuous period of 3 months, the administration of that medicine shall not be continued unless either— | |
(a) the continued administration of that medicine is approved by the consultant psychiatrist responsible for the care and treatment of the child, and | ||
(b) the continued administration of that medicine is authorised (in a form specified by the Commission) by another consultant psychiatrist, following referral of the matter to him or her by the first-mentioned psychiatrist, | ||
and the consent or, as the case may be, approval and authorisation shall be valid for a period of 3 months and thereafter for periods of 3 months, if, in respect of each period, the like consent or, as the case may be, approval and authorisation is obtained. |