Section 22 Approved medical practitionersI1I2
Subject to subsection (3) below, the persons mentioned in subsection (2) below shall each compile and maintain a list of medical practitioners who—
have such qualifications and experience, and have undertaken such training, as may be specified in directions given by the Scottish Ministers; and
are approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Board concerned as having special experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder.
Those persons are—
a Health Board; and
the State Hospitals Board for Scotland.
A list compiled by a Health Board under subsection (1) above shall be compiled for its area.
A medical practitioner included for the time being in any list maintained under subsection (1) above is referred to in this Act as an “approved medical practitioner”.
Annotations
Commencement
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S. 22 in force at 21.3.2005 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 2, Sch. 1
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S. 22 in force at 5.10.2005 in so far as not already in force 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)