The Mental Health (Cross-border transfer: patients subject to detention requirement or otherwise in hospital) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 No. 229

PART 1 Introductory

Saving provision in relation to removal of patients from Scotland

4.—(1) The amendments made to the principal Regulations by Chapter 2 of Part 2 do not apply in relation to a case in which notice under regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (notification of proposed application for a warrant for a patient’s removal from Scotland) was given before 30th June 2017.

(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply to the amendment made by regulation 22.