SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE A1Hospital and care home residents: deprivation of liberty

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )

Part 4Standard authorisations

Eligibility assessment

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An eligibility assessment is an assessment of whether the relevant person meets the eligibility requirement.

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1

Regulations may—

a

require an eligibility assessor to request a best interests assessor to provide relevant eligibility information, and

b

require the best interests assessor, if such a request is made, to provide such relevant eligibility information as he may have.

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In this paragraph—

  • “best interests assessor” means any person who is carrying out, or has carried out, a best interests assessment in relation to the relevant person;

  • “eligibility assessor” means a person carrying out an eligibility assessment in relation to the relevant person;

  • “relevant eligibility information” is information relevant to assessing whether or not the relevant person is ineligible by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1A.