http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/12Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016An Act to make new provision relating to persons who lack capacity; to make provision about the powers of criminal courts in respect of persons with disorder; to disapply Part 2 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 in relation to persons aged 16 or over and make other amendments of that Order; to make provision in connection with the Convention on the International Protection of Adults signed at the Hague on 13th January 2000; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2022-07-25Expert Participation2022-04-01 Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016s. 285(2)(a)-(c)Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022Sch. 3 para. 77(b)s. 160(1) PART 2 CHAPTER 1121This section applies where the act mentioned in section 9(1) (“the relevant act”) is—aan act restraining P; orban act that consists of instructing or authorising another person to do an act restraining P.2Section 9(2) (protection from liability) applies to the relevant act only if the restraint condition (as well as the conditions of section 9(1)(c) and (d), and any other conditions that apply under this Part) is met in relation to the relevant act.3The restraint condition is that at the time the relevant act is done, D reasonably believes—athat failure to do the relevant act would create a risk of harm to P; andbthat the relevant act is a proportionate response to—ithe likelihood of harm to P; andiithe seriousness of the harm concerned.4In this section an “act restraining P” means an act which—ais intended to restrict P's liberty of movement, whether or not P resists; orbis a use of force or a threat to use force and is done with the intention of securing the doing of an act which P resists.5This section does not apply to an act which in itself amounts to a deprivation of liberty (as to which see sections 24 and 25).6Subsection (5) does not affect the application of this section to an act restraining P which is done while P is detained in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty.