SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Categories of mental disorder: further amendments etc

Part 1Amendments to 1983 Act

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In section 51(6) (further power to make hospital order), in paragraph (a), for the words from “the detainee” to the end substitute—

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the detainee is suffering from mental disorder of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for the patient to be detained in a hospital for medical treatment;