Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995

Offences

6In section 105 of that Act (ill-treatment of patients), after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(2A)It shall be an offence for any individual to ill-treat or wilfully neglect a patient in respect of whom a community care order is for the time being in force.

7In section 109 of that Act (obstruction), in subsection (1), after the word “Act,” there shall be inserted “or to give access to any person to a person so authorised”.