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Section 29

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. F. Paterson
Affiliation:
Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone, Kent
A. R. Dabbs
Affiliation:
Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone, Kent

Extract

The wording of the Mental Health Act, 1959 makes it clear that an application under Section 29 replaces both the old Urgency Order and the D.A.O.'s three-day order as a means of compulsory admission to a mental hospital or the psychiatric ward of a general hospital. It was intended to be limited to cases where the patient's mind is so acutely deranged as to make him a grave and immediate danger to himself or others, so that the delay in obtaining a second medical recommendation required for admission under Section 25 might spell disaster.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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