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Section 63 Treatment not requiring consent.

England and Wales

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

The consent of a patient shall not be required for any medical treatment given to him for the mental disorder from which he is suffering F1, not being a form of treatment to which section 57, 58 or 58A above applies, if the treatment is given by or under the direction of the F2approved clinician in charge of the treatment .

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 63 substituted (3.11.2008) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 28(8), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(g) (with art. 3, Sch.)

F2

Words in s. 63 substituted (3.11.2008) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 12(6), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(b) (with art. 3, Sch.)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

For the words "Supreme Court Act 1981" there is substituted (1.10.2009) the words "Senior Courts Act 1981" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)