127.When an interim compulsion order (ICO) is made under section 53 of the 1995 Act, the court will specify a hospital to which the offender is to be admitted. Section 53B concerns the review and extension of ICOs. At present whilst the terms of an order can be extended, it is not possible for the court to direct that an offender be moved to a different hospital, notwithstanding the fact that it may have become apparent during the course of the initial period of the ICO that the present hospital was not suitable for the offender in question.
128.Section 45 of the Act provides a power for the court to direct that, if it is appropriate to do so, the offender be admitted to a different hospital, specified by direction. If that is done, section 32(2)(c) provides that this is to have the same effect as if the hospital specified in the direction were the hospital specified in the ICO.