{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-168",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-168.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/168",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "168",
  "heading": "Interim extension etc. of order: application under section 149or 158",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where an application is made under section 149or 158 of this Act.\n(2) Subject to section 170 of this Act, on the application of any person having an interest in the proceedings, or ex proprio motu, the Tribunal may, if it considers—\n(a) that it will be unable to determine the application before the compulsion order to which the application relates ceases to authorise the measures specified in it; and\n(b) that it is appropriate, pending its determining the application, to—\n(i) extend the order; or\n(ii) extend and vary the order by modifying the measures specified in it,\nmake an interim order extending, or extending and varying, the compulsion order for such period not exceeding 28 days as may be specified in the order of the Tribunal.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 168(1) inserted (27.9.2005) by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 32(16)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 168 inserted (27.9.2005) by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 32(16)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 168 in force at 5.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as substituted (1.7.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/375, art. 2 and as amended (22.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/459, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/section/168",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:46.625109+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}