Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Section 135 of the Mental Health Act (1983) allows a Justice of the Peace, on information provided on oath by an approved social worker, to issue a warrant allowing any constable named in the warrant to enter, if need be by force, any premises in which there is reasonable cause to suspect that a person believed to be suffering from a mental disorder:
(a) has been, or is being, ill-treated, neglected or kept otherwise than under proper control: or
(b) being unable to care for himself, is living alone in any such place, and, if thought fit, to remove him to a place of safety.
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