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SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 76 What is a treatment order?

SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 76

What is a treatment order?

(1)  A treatment order is an order for the detention of the person in respect of whom it is made as an involuntary patient in the approved hospital specified in the order for the term not exceeding 6 months specified in the order.
(2)  Once made, a treatment order is taken to be a treatment order made under the Mental Health Act 2013 .