Paragraph 4

This paragraph applies where immediately before the appointed day a patient is detained in hospital under section 16(2) of the 1961 Act.

The patient may be detained in hospital for a period not exceeding 3 days beginning with the day on which he was first detained under section 16(2), but shall not be detained thereafter unless before the expiration of that period an application for assessment is made in respect of him under Part II of this Order.