SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Supervised community treatment: further amendments to 1983 Act
Special provisions as to patients absent without leave
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1
Section 21 (special provisions as to patients absent without leave) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)—
a
in paragraph (a), after “Act” insert “
or, in the case of a community patient, the community treatment order would cease to be in force
”
, and
b
after “liable or subject” insert “
, or the order shall not cease to be in force,
”
.
3
After subsection (3) (inserted by section 37 of this Act) insert—
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Where a community patient is absent without leave on the day on which (apart from this section) the 72-hour period mentioned in section 17F above would expire, that period shall not expire until the end of the period of 72 hours beginning with the time when—
a
the patient is taken into custody under section 18 above and returned to the hospital where he ought to be; or
b
the patient returns himself to the hospital where he ought to be within the period during which he can be taken into custody under section 18 above.
5
Any reference in this section, or in sections 21A to 22 below, to the time when a community treatment order would cease, or would have ceased, to be in force shall be construed as a reference to the time when it would cease, or would have ceased, to be in force by reason only of the passage of time.