A physician who has signed a Form 2 uses this short Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act certificate when a second physician cannot readily examine the person. By confirming that compelling circumstances exist, the physician makes their single certificate sufficient authority for custody, a 72-hour hold and an involuntary psychiatric assessment, instead of waiting for a second Form 2 from another physician.
The same physician who signed the attached Form 2 completes and signs Form 3, recording the date and time of signature. No other person completes any part of it.
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Form 3 - Certificate for Involuntary Psychiatric Assessment - Part 2
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Subsection 10(2) of the Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act lets one physician's certificate be sufficient authority when the physician determines compelling circumstances exist and a second physician is not readily available to examine the person and execute a second certificate. Form 3 documents that determination.
No. It must be accompanied by a Form 2 signed by the same physician, which records the examination, the criteria and the reasons. Form 3 only stands in for the second Form 2 that another physician would otherwise complete.
The Form 2 instructions say that if Form 3 is used and there is no second Form 2, the 72 hours start when the first Form 2 is signed. If the person is not physically present to be detained when Form 3 is issued, the hold starts when the person is detained.