Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I move amendment No. 10:

In page 4, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:

""patient", in sections 11, 12 and 13, means a person detained in a designated centre pursuant to this Act;".

This is a technical amendment which follows from one suggested by Fine Gael on Committee Stage. The current construction is somewhat unusual in that "patient" is defined in section 12 although it first appears in section 11 and is used again in section 13. Having discussed the matter with the Parliamentary Counsel I propose to relocate the definition to section 1. The amendment to section 12 is consequent on that change and simply provides for the removal of the definition of "patient" from section 12(1).

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