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MHA 1983 § 47

UK Mental Health Act 1983 provision allowing the Secretary of State for Justice to transfer a sentenced prisoner to a psychiatric hospital when the prisoner is suffering from a mental disorder of a nature or degree making hospital treatment appropriate and available.

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