{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-2A/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-2A/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/595",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the medical practitioner by whom or under whose direction the supervised person is being treated for his mental condition in pursuance of any requirement of a supervision and treatment order—\n(a) is of the opinion mentioned in sub-paragraph (2); or\n(b) is for any reason unwilling to continue to treat or direct the treatment of the supervised person,\nhe shall make a report in writing to that effect to the supervising officer and that officer shall apply under paragraph 8 to a court of summary jurisdiction ... for the variation or cancellation of the requirement.\n(2) The opinion referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is—\n(a) that the treatment of the supervised person should be continued beyond the period specified in the supervision and treatment order;\n(b) that the supervised person needs different treatment, being treatment of a kind to which he could be required to submit in pursuance of such an order;\n(c) that the supervised person has failed without reasonable excuse to comply with any of the requirements of the treatment;\n(d) that the supervised person is not susceptible to treatment; or\n(e) that the supervised person does not require further treatment.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1996 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2A para. 9(1) repealed (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 94(8), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2016/18",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/schedule/2A/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:38.738443+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."
}