Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

Adult in danger etc

28.—(1) This paragraph applies if a public authority is told that an adult—

(a) who is in serious danger, and

(b) in relation to whom the public authority has taken, or is considering taking, protective measures,

is, or has become resident, in a country other than Northern Ireland.

(2) The public authority must tell an appropriate authority in that other country about—

(a) the danger; and

(b) the measures taken or under consideration.

29.  A public authority may not request from, or send to, an appropriate authority in a country other than Northern Ireland information in accordance with Chapter 5 (co-operation) in relation to an adult if it considers that doing so—

(a) would be likely to endanger the adult or the adult’s property; or

(b) would amount to a serious threat to the liberty or life of a member of the adult’s family.