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'''Section 16 powers: personal welfare'''
'''Section 16 powers: personal welfare'''
   
   

Latest revision as of 22:40, 5 August 2015

Section 16 powers: personal welfare

17.—(1) The powers under section 16 as respects P's personal welfare extend in particular to-

(a) deciding where P is to live;
(b) deciding what contact, if any, P is to have with any specified persons;
(c) making an order prohibiting a named person from having contact with P;
(d) giving or refusing consent to the carrying out or continuation of a treatment by a person providing health care for P;
(e) giving a direction that a person responsible for P's health care allow a different person to take over that responsibility.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to section 20 (restrictions on deputies).

Amendments

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has been fully in force since 1 October 2007. For details of proposed amendments, see Mental Health Act 2007.