Section 17: Section 16 powers: personal welfare

Mental Capacity Act 2005 · 2005 c. 9View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Persons who lack capacity

The powers under section 16 as respects P's personal welfare extend in particular to—

deciding where P is to live;
deciding what contact, if any, P is to have with any specified persons;
making an order prohibiting a named person from having contact with P;
giving or refusing consent to the carrying out or continuation of a treatment by a person providing health care for P;
giving a direction that a person responsible for P's health care allow a different person to take over that responsibility.

Subsection (1) is subject to section 20 (restrictions on deputies).

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