TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS [ S.L.262.02 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 262.02
TRANSFER OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS 
REGULATIONS
14th August, 1981
LEGAL NOTICE 91 of 1981.
Title.
Patients Regulations.
Transfer of 
patients.
2. (1) No patient in a hospital may be transferred from one
hospital to another unless such transfer is authorised by the
manager of the hospital in which such patient is detained.
(2) Any such authorisation shall be made in the form shown in
the Schedule.
(3) Any such authorisation shall lapse unless it is given effect
to not later than twenty-eight days after the day in which it is
signed by the said manager.
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SCHEDULE
(Regulation 2)
MENTAL HEALTH ACT
Authority for transfer from one hospital to another under different managers
(1) Name of patient. Authority is hereby given for the transfer of (1)
............................................................. from (2)
................................................................... to (3)
.......................................................... in accordance
with the Transfer of Hospital Patients Regulations,
within twenty-eight days of the date of this
authority.
(2) Name and address
of hospital in which the
patient is liable to be
detained.
(3) Name and address
of hospital to which the
patient is to be transferred.
Name ........................
Capacity ........................
Record of Admission
(This section is not part of the authority for transfer but is to be completed later at 
the hospital to which the patient is transferred)
(4) Name of hospital.
(5) Date of admission
to receiving hospital.
This patient was transferred to (4) ......................
in pursuance of this authority on (5) ........................ 
Signed ........................
on behalf of the manager
Date ...........................
