5. Minors

The admission of a minor is decided, unless necessary, at the request of a person exercising parental authority or the judicial authority. The admission of a minor who has been placed in an educational establishment or entrusted to a private individual by the judicial authority ruling on educational assistance or in application of the texts governing delinquent children, is pronounced at the request of the director of the establishment or…

Subject to the provisions of article L. 1111-5, if at the time of admission of a minor it appears that written authorisation to operate on him or her and to carry out the procedures associated with the operation could not, if necessary, be obtained from his or her father, mother or legal guardian within a short time due to their distance, or for any other reason, they must, as soon…

When the patient is under the care of a departmental child welfare service, the director will send the confidential certificate from the head doctor of the service, stating the diagnosis and the probable length of hospitalisation, to the child welfare medical service in a sealed envelope within forty-eight hours of admission.