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Paragraph 4

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 7 (persons discharged from hospital), in subsection (9), in the definition of “the managers”f2–

(a)

in paragraph (a)(i) there is omitted “a special hospital or”, and

(b)

paragraph (b) is omitted.

(3)

In section 11 (reports to Parliament), in the definition of “health service hospital” in sub-section (2)(a), for “special hospital” there is substituted “hospital at which high security psychiatric services within the meaning of that Act are provided”.

(4)

In section 16 (interpretation) the definition of “special hospital” is omitted.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 33.

f2

The definition of “the managers” was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 30(2) and the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 111(3)(b)(ii), and is amended by this Order, Schedule 1, paragraph 18(3).