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Time to amend Section 135

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Cutajar  and
Michele Hampson
Peter Cutajar*
Affiliation:
South Block, E Floor, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
Michele Hampson
Affiliation:
Highbury Hospital, Bulwell, Nottingham
*
∗Correspondence
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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:

  1. (a) has been, or is being, ill-treated, neglected or kept otherwise than under proper control: or

  2. (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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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 640 - 641
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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