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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2-1

I.-A person undergoing psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II and III of this Title or Article 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is said to be in psychiatric care without consent.The person…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2-2

When a person is admitted for psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II or III of this Title, he/she is subject to a period of observation and initial care in the form of full hospitalisation. Within t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-7

A person hospitalised in application of chapters II and III of the present code orarticle 706-135 of the code of criminal procedure in a care establishment retains the domicile that was his prior to h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-8

A person undergoing psychiatric care pursuant to Chapters II and III of this Title orarticle 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure may be placed under curatorship or guardianship under the conditi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-4

A therapeutic protocol practised in psychiatry can only be implemented in strict compliance with the deontological and ethical rules in force.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-5

A person undergoing psychiatric care, whether or not in the form of full hospitalisation, on account of a mental disorder, retains all his rights and duties as a citizen at the end of such care, subje…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2-3

When a person who meets the conditions for admission to psychiatric care under Chapters II and III of this Title is taken into emergency care by a health care establishment which does not provide care…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2

A person undergoing psychiatric care with their consent for mental disorders is said to be in free psychiatric care. They have the same rights to exercise individual freedoms as those granted to patie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-6

A doctor who ascertains that the person he is caring for needs protection in the acts of civil life, for one of the reasons set out in article 425 of the Civil Code, may make a declaration to the publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-12-1

I.-A patient's full hospitalisation may not continue without a decision on this measure having been taken by the liberty and custody judge, to whom the matter has first been referred by the director o…

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