How to complete Mental Health Act Form 8 — and autofill 014-1980-41 with my-id.ca
Issue an order for admission without retyping patient and facility details
Physicians and facilities issuing an order for admission under subsection 22(1) repeat patient name, psychiatric facility identifiers, and physician contact information on Form 8. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Mental health services — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Form 8 — Order for Admission (subsection 22(1)) — 014-1980-41
What this form is about
Form 014-1980-41 is Form 8 — Order for Admission under subsection 22(1) of the Mental Health Act.
Before you start: what to gather
- Patient full legal name and date of birth.
- Psychiatric facility name, address, and contact.
- Issuing physician name and contact details.
- Admission grounds and effective date — confirm on ontario.ca.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your patient name and facility or physician details in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- When is Form 8 used?
- When subsection 22(1) authorizes an order for admission to a psychiatric facility — confirm on ontario.ca.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills patient names and facility addresses across Mental Health Act admission forms.
- How is this Form 8 different from Form 3?
- Form 3 is a certificate of involuntary admission; Form 8 is an order for admission under subsection 22(1) — confirm which applies.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.