http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/253Mental 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 10 CHAPTER 92531In this Part—“appropriate care or treatment”, in relation to a person, means care or treatment which is (or care and treatment which are) appropriate in that person's case;“appropriate establishment” has the meaning given by section 167;“approved medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner approved by RQIA for the purposes of this Part;“custodial sentence” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (see Article 4(1) of that Order);“disorder” has the meaning given by section 252;“hospital direction” has the meaning given by section 174;“hospital transfer direction” has the meaning given by section 224;“interim detention order” has the meaning given by section 177;“juvenile justice centre” has the meaning given by Article 51(1) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;“the period” of a public protection order without restrictions has the meaning given by section 181;“prison” has the same meaning as in the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953;“public protection order” has the meaning given by section 167;“public protection order with restrictions” has the meaning given by that section;“public protection order without restrictions” has the meaning given by that section;“remand centre” has the meaning given by section 2(b) of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;“the responsible medical practitioner”, in relation to a person liable to be detained in a hospital or other establishment by virtue of this Part, means the medical practitioner who is in charge of the person's care (see also subsection (2));“supervision and assessment order” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 7;“young offenders centre” has the meaning given by section 2(a) of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.2Regulations may provide that the medical practitioner in charge of a person's care may carry out prescribed functions of the responsible medical practitioner under this Part only if—athe practitioner is an approved medical practitioner; orbany other prescribed condition is met.3Any reference in this Part to an offence punishable on summary conviction with imprisonment includes a reference to an indictable offence which may be tried summarily.4For the avoidance of doubt, a remand, order or direction of a court under this Part is not to be regarded for the purposes of section 2 or any other purpose of this Act as an act done or decision made for or on behalf of a person.5See also sections 304 to 306 (definitions for purposes of Act).