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Part 4 SHealth Board and local authority functions

Chapter 2SLocal authority functions

Provision of servicesS

27Assistance with travelS

A local authority—

(a)shall—

(i)provide, for persons who are not in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder, such facilities for, or assistance in, travelling as the authority may consider necessary to enable those persons to attend or participate in any of the services mentioned in sections 25 and 26 of this Act; or

(ii)secure the provision of such facilities or assistance for such persons; and

(b)may—

(i)provide such facilities or assistance for persons who are in hospital and who have or have had a mental disorder; or

(ii)secure the provision of such facilities or assistance for such persons.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I1S. 27 in force at 5.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as substituted (1.7.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/375, art. 2 and as amended (22.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/459, art. 2)