Section 33: Accreditation required for involuntary care.

(1) No facility shall admit a person with a mental health condition involuntarily or admit involuntarily a person who had been admitted voluntarily unless it is accredited by the Ministry as a facility capable of providing involuntary care to patients.
(2) The certificate of accreditation by the Ministry or state agency as a facility capable of providing involuntary care to patients must be displayed in a conspicuous place in the facility.
(3) Any attending healthcare worker or head of the facility who admits a person with mental health condition involuntarily or involuntarily admits a person who had been admitted voluntarily in a facility, which has not been accredited by the Ministry to provide involuntary care to patients, commits an offence and is liable on conviction, to a fine of at least N2,000,000 or imprisonment for a term not more than five years or both.
(4) Where a facility which has not been licensed by the Ministry or the relevant state agency to provide involuntary care to patients admits a person under this section, the facility is liable on conviction to a fine of at least N10,000,000.