Commentary on Sections Part 19 – Entry, Removal and Detention Powers
577.Part 19 provides powers to allow authorised persons to enter premises in order to take a patient to a place of safety, to another specified place, or into custody, and for those authorised persons to remove a patient to a place of safety. It also confers on certain classes of nurse, the power to detain certain categories of patient for up to 2 hours for the purpose of having a medical practitioner undertake an examination of the patient.