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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 67

67.(1) Every private hospital shall be registered, and the following
provisions of this Part shall apply to the registration, conduct and
inspection of private hospitals.

(2) An application for the registration of premises as a private hospital
shall be made in writing to the Ministry by or on behalf of the person
proposing to carry on the hospital, and shall be accompanied by a fee of
[25p].

(3) Subject to section sixty-eight, the Ministry may register the premises
named in the application and issue to the person proposing to carry on the
hospital a certificate of registration.

(4) A certificate of registration shall

(a)specify the maximum number of persons who at any one time may receive care
or treatment in the hospital to which the certificate relates; and

(b)contain such conditions as the Ministry may consider appropriate for
regulating the category of patients who may be received into the hospital.

(5) A certificate of registration shall, unless cancelled or surrendered,
continue in force for a period of five years from its date of issue, but shall
be renewable on a fresh application.

(6) A certificate of registration shall be kept fixed conspicuously in the
hospital to which it relates, and if this requirement is not complied with the
person carrying on the hospital shall be guilty of an offence under this Part.

(7) In this Act "private hospital" means any premises used or intended to be
used for the reception of, and the provision of treatment for, one or more
patients subject to detention under this Act (whether or not other persons are
received and treated), not being a hospital vested in [the Ministry] [and not
being premises managed by the service authorities of a visiting force or by a
headquarters].

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