MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 314
Chief psychiatrist’s order
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 314
Chief psychiatrist’s order
314 Chief psychiatrist’s order
(1) This section applies if the chief
psychiatrist makes an order under section 313(2) (a) or (b) in relation to a
relevant forensic patient or class of relevant forensic patients.
(2) The
chief psychiatrist’s order must include the following—
(a) if the order
relates to a particular relevant forensic patient—the name of the patient;
(b) if the order relates to a class of relevant forensic patients—sufficient
details to identify the class;
Example of a class of relevant forensic
patients for paragraph (b)—
all relevant forensic patients in an inpatient
unit of a particular authorised mental health service who are receiving
limited community treatment
(c) if the order is made under section 313(2)
(a) —the period of the suspension of limited community treatment;
(d) if
the order is made under section 313(2) (b) —the period for which the
category of the forensic order is changed to inpatient;
(e) if the order
requires a relevant forensic patient, or each member of a class of relevant
forensic patients, to return to an authorised mental health service—the name
of the service and the time or date by which the patient must return to the
service.
(3) For subsection (2) (e) , the order may state an authorised
mental health service other than the patient’s treating health service.
(4)
The chief psychiatrist must give each relevant forensic patient subject to the
order a copy of the order and a written notice stating—
(a) that the patient
may appeal to the tribunal against the chief psychiatrist’s decision to make
the order; and
(b) the period within which the patient may appeal to the
tribunal; and
