--(1) Where-
----(a) an application is made for-
--------(i) the appointment of a receiver for a patient; or
--------(ii) an order authorising a person to do any act or carry out any transaction on behalf of the patient without appointing that person a receiver; or
----(b) the court proposes to make an order with respect to a patient's property in summary manner,
--the general rule is that the patient must be served with a notice in the appropriate practice form.
--(2) The court may, however, dispense with service if it considers that-
----(a) the patient is incapable of understanding the notice;
----(b) service of the notice might be injurious to the patient's health; or
----(c) for any other reason service ought to be dispensed with.
--(3) Where service has been dispensed with under paragraph (2) and the patient is within Trinidad and Tobago, the court may appoint some fit and proper person to visit him and report to the court as to his condition and welfare.
--(4) Service of notice in the appropriate practice form by a registered medical practitioner may be proved by a certificate of service signed by him stating where, when and how he effected service.
--(5) No order under paragraph (1) takes effect until 7 days have passed since service of notice in the appropriate practice form on the patient unless-
----(a) the court has dispensed with such service; or
----(b) the order is an interim order under rule 70.16.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 233 of 2005.
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