Paragraph 4 Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983I1

Section 17A (community treatment orders) is amended as follows.

In subsection (5), for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

the patient is suffering from psychiatric disorder of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for the patient to receive medical treatment,”.

In subsection (6), for “mental”, in both places it occurs, substitute “psychiatric”.