Paragraph 15 Amendments of Part 4A of the Mental Health Act 1983I1

In Part 4A of the Mental Health Act 1983 (treatment of community patients not recalled to hospital), for section 64A substitute—

“Meaning of “relevant treatment”

64A

(1)

In this Part of this Act “relevant treatment”—

(a)

in relation to a Part 3 community patient, means medical treatment which—

(i)

is for the relevant disorder from which the patient is suffering, and

(ii)

is not a form of treatment to which section 57 applies, and

(b)

in relation to any other community patient, means medical treatment which—

(i)

is for the psychiatric disorder from which the patient is suffering, and

(ii)

is not a form of treatment to which section 57 applies.

(2)

In subsection (1)(a)—

• “Part 3 community patient” means a person who is a community patient by virtue of a community treatment order under section 17A as applied by Part 1 of Schedule 1;

• “relevant disorder” has the meaning given by section 34A.”