9. If the psychiatric clinical examination has not been made within an institution operating a hospital centre and the report contemplated by section 7 concludes that close treatment is necessary or that the person concerned is unable to take care of himself or to administer his property, the psychiatrist or physician who has submitted such report must send a copy thereof to the institution which operates a hospital centre and holds the medical record of the patient examined or, where there is no such institution, to the institution which operates a hospital centre and whose head office is the nearest.
No person shall take cognizance of such a report unless authorized to do so by law.
1972, c. 44, s. 9; 1989, c. 54, s. 182; 1992, c. 21, s. 265.