Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

Assessment element

4.—(1) An assessment element is a requirement that, during a specified period (“the assessment period”), the supervised person must—

(a) attend at a specified place at a specified time or times, or

(b) make himself or herself available at a specified place at a specified time or times,

for assessment by or under the direction of a medical practitioner.

(2) The assessment period may be the whole or any part of the supervision period.

(3) Assessment under sub-paragraph (1) is to be assessment of such of the following as the medical practitioner considers appropriate at the time of the assessment—

(a) the supervised person’s condition;

(b) either or both of the matters mentioned in paragraph 2(3)(a) and (b).

(4) In sub-paragraph (1) “specified” means specified in the order.