(f) each of the applications mentioned in subsection (1) above shall be sufficient if the
recommendations on which it is founded are given either as separate recommendations, or
as a joint recommendation signed by the medical officer and a psychiatrist.
(2) General provisions as to medical recommendations:__
(a) where recommendations are required for the purposes of an application under this
Ordinance, they shall be signed on or before the date of the application, and shall be
given by a medical officer or an approved psychiatrist who have examined the patient
either together or separately, but where they have examined the patient separately not
more than five days must have elapsed between the days on which those separate
examinations took place.
(b) of the medical recommendations given for the purposes of any application as referred
under clause (a) above, one shall be given by an approved psychiatrist and unless that
psychiatrist has previous acquaintance with the patient, the other such recommendation
shall, if practicable, be liven by a medical officer who has such previous acquaintance.
18. Rectification of application and recommendations.__ (1) If within the period of 14 days
beginning with the day on which application was made in respect of the patient to be admitted to a
psychiatric facility for assessment or for treatment the application or any medical recommendation
given for the purposes of the application, is found to in any respect incorrect or defective, the
recommendation or application may, within that period and with the consent of the management of
the psychiatric facility, be amended by the person by whom it was signed; and upon such amendment
being made the application or recommendation shall have effect and shall be deemed to have had
effect as if it had been originally made as so amended.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, if within the period mentioned in that subsection
it appears to the management of the psychiatric facility that one of the two medical recommendations
on which the application for admission of a patient is founded is insufficient to warrant the detention
of the patient in pursuance of the application, they may, within that period, give notice in writing to
that effect to the applicant; and where any such notice is given in respect of a medical
recommendation, that recommendation shall be disregarded, but the application shall be, deemed
always to have been, sufficient if__
(a) a fresh recommendation complying with the relevant provisions of this Ordinance (other
than the provisions relating to the time of signature and the interval between
examinations) is furnished to hospital management within that period; and
(b) the fresh recommendation, and the other recommendation given earlier on which the
application is founded, together comply with those provisions.
(3) where the medical recommendations upon which an application for admission is founded are,
taken together, insufficient to warrant the detention of the patient either of those
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