Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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26—(1) The grant of an authorisation under paragraph 15 (“the later authorisation”), as well as revoking any interim authorisation relating to the same application, revokes any relevant earlier authorisation; but this is subject to sub-paragraph (3).N.I.

(2) In this paragraph a “relevant earlier authorisation” means—

(a)any authorisation under Schedule 2 in respect of P, or

(b)any authorisation under paragraph 15 in respect of P,

which is in force immediately before the grant of the later authorisation.

(3) The panel which grants the later authorisation may, when it makes the grant, also decide that—

(a)a relevant earlier authorisation specified by the panel, or

(b)a specified provision of such an authorisation,

is not revoked by the grant.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 26 in operation at 2.12.2019 for specified purposes by S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(4), Sch. Pt. 4 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)