View source for Re GK (Patient: Habeas Corpus); Kinsey v North Mersey Community NHS Trust (1999) EWHC Admin 577

''The statutory provisions meant that a hand delivered notice of intention to discharge by a nearest relative had to come into the hands of the Mental Health Act Administrator to start the 72 hour period for a barring order (s25 Mental Health Act 1983); if the notice was sent by post to the Managers, it was their responsibility to ensure that an authorised officer was available to open it and deal with it.'' [MHLR.]

==MHLR==
{{MHLR|1999|128}}

==Old wiki summary==
''The nearest relative gave a discharge notice to the hospital receptionist; it was more than 72 hours before it was  received by the MHA Administrator; the order was not served by "delivery of the order or notice at that hospital to an officer of the managers authorised by them to receive it" until the MHA Administrator received it; therefore the subsequent barring order was effective.''

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