P-41 - Mental Patients Protection Act

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12. No institution operating a hospital centre may admit a person for close treatment unless he has had a psychiatric clinical examination, unless the report contemplated by section 7 shows the necessity of close treatment and unless such report has been confirmed by the report of another psychiatrist after a psychiatric clinical examination performed by such psychiatrist.
An institution may however admit such person for close treatment of not more than ninety-six hours when a second psychiatrist has not confirmed the report of the first.
1972, c. 44, s. 12; 1992, c. 21, s. 267.
12. No hospital centre may admit a person for close treatment unless he has had a psychiatric clinical examination, unless the report contemplated by section 7 shows the necessity of close treatment and unless such report has been confirmed by the report of another psychiatrist after a psychiatric clinical examination performed by such psychiatrist.
A hospital centre may however admit such person for close treatment of not more than ninety-six hours when a second psychiatrist has not confirmed the report of the first.
1972, c. 44, s. 12.