Mental Health Act 1959

16 (1) References in the last foregoing paragraph to a patient who immediately before the appointed day was liable to be detained as a Broadmoor patient include references to a Broadmoor patient conditionally discharged by the Secretary of State before the commencement of this Act under section five of the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884, and—

(a) any such patient shall be treated as if he had been conditionally discharged by the Secretary of State under section sixty-six of this Act; and

(b) any direction given before the commencement of this Act under the said section five to take any such patient into custody and convey him to a hospital shall be deemed to have been given under the said section sixty-six.

(2) Sections thirty-nine and forty of this Act, in their application to a transferred patient, who is also a patient to whom paragraph 21 of this Schedule applies shall have effect subject to the modifications mentioned in that paragraph.