P-41 - Mental Patients Protection Act

Section 21 Disposition versions

1994-01-01

21. The director of professional services of an institution which operates a hospital centre or, in his absence, any physician practising in that centre may admit temporarily to a facility maintained by that institution a person not having undergone a psychiatric clinical examination, if he considers that the mental state of such person poses a serious and immediate threat for such person or others.

Such a person shall not be kept for more than 48 hours without his consent or the court’s authorization.

1972, c. 44, s. 21; 1974, c. 43, s. 2; 1992, c. 21, s. 269; 1992, c. 57, s. 674.

1992-10-01

21. The director of professional services of an institution which operates a hospital centre or, in his absence, any physician practising in that centre may admit temporarily to a facility maintained by that institution a person not having undergone a psychiatric clinical examination, if he considers that the mental state of such person poses a serious and immediate threat for such person or others.

Within forty-eight hours such person must have a psychiatric clinical examination; if the report following such examination concludes that close treatment is necessary, the motion contemplated in section 14 must be made to the judge by the director of professional services as if such person refused to have a clinical psychiatric examination.

1972, c. 44, s. 21; 1974, c. 43, s. 2; 1992, c. 21, s. 269.

1977-12-31

21. The director of professional services or, in his absence, any physician practising in a hospital centre may admit temporarily thereto a person not having undergone a psychiatric clinical examination, if he considers that the mental state of such person poses a serious and immediate threat for such person or others.

Within forty-eight hours such person must have a psychiatric clinical examination; if the report following such examination concludes that close treatment is necessary, the motion contemplated in section 14 must be made to the judge by the director of professional services as if such person refused to have a clinical psychiatric examination.

1972, c. 44, s. 21; 1974, c. 43, s. 2.