Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13)

Part 6 Short-term detention

Effect of short-term detention certificate on compulsory treatment order

56 Effect of subsequent short-term detention certificate on compulsory treatment order

(1) Subsection (2) below applies where—

(a) a patient is subject to a compulsory treatment order; and

(b) a short-term detention certificate is granted in respect of the patient.

(2) The compulsory treatment order shall cease to authorise the measures specified in it for the period during which the patient is subject to the short-term detention certificate.