TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS REGULATIONS

TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 262.02

TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS

REGULATIONS

14th August, 1981

LEGAL NOTICE 91 of 1981.

The title of these regulations is the Transfer of Hospital

Patients Regulations.

(Regulation 2)

MENTAL HEALTH ACT

Authority for transfer from one hospital to another under different managers

(1) Name of patient.

Authority is hereby given for the transfer of (1)

............................................................. from (2)

(2) Name and address

................................................................... to (3)

of hospital in which the

.......................................................... in accordance

patient is liable to be

with the Transfer of Hospital Patients Regulations,

detained.

within twenty-eight days of the date of this

(3) Name and address

authority.

of hospital to which the

patient is to be transferred.

Name ........................

Capacity ........................

Record of Admission

(This section is not part of the authority for transfer but is to be completed later at

the hospital to which the patient is transferred)

(4) Name of hospital.

This patient was transferred to (4) ......................

(5) Date of admission in pursuance of this authority on (5) ........................

to receiving hospital.

Signed ........................

on behalf of the manager

Date ...........................

(1) No patient in a hospital may be transferred from one

hospital to another unless such transfer is authorised by the

manager of the hospital in which such patient is detained.

(2) Any such authorisation shall be made in the form shown in

the Schedule.

(3) Any such authorisation shall lapse unless it is given effect

to not later than twenty-eight days after the day in which it is

signed by the said manager.

TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS