http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/16Mental 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 3161This section applies where the act mentioned in section 9(1) is, or is done in the course of, the provision to P of any of the following treatment—aelectro-convulsive therapy;bany treatment with serious consequences which is also treatment of a description specified for the purposes of this paragraph by regulations;cany treatment with serious consequences where, at the time of the act—ithe question whether it is in P's best interests to have the treatment is finely balanced; andiithe circumstances are such as may be prescribed.2Section 9(2) (protection from liability) applies to the act only if, at the time the act is done, a second opinion has been obtained (and the conditions of section 9(1)(c) and (d), and any other conditions that apply under this Part, are met in relation to the act).3The second opinion must have been obtained recently enough before the act is done for it to be reasonable in all the circumstances to rely on it.4This section does not apply where the situation is an emergency (see section 65).5In this section a “second opinion” means a relevant certificate (as defined by section 18) in respect of the treatment mentioned in subsection (1).6For the purposes of subsection (1)(c)(i) it does not matter whether the choice is between—athe treatment in question and no treatment; orbthe treatment in question and another treatment.7For the meaning of “treatment with serious consequences” see section 21.