Part 4

Health Board and local authority functions
Chapter 1

Health Board duties

Approved medical practitioners

Approved medical practitioners
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1
Subject to subsection (3) below, the persons mentioned in subsection (2) below shall each compile and maintain a list of medical practitioners who—
a
have such qualifications and experience, and have undertaken such training, as may be specified in directions given by the Scottish Ministers; and
b
are approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Board concerned as having special experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder.
2
Those persons are—
a
a Health Board; and
b
the State Hospitals Board for Scotland.
3
A list compiled by a Health Board under subsection (1) above shall be compiled for its area.
4
A medical practitioner included for the time being in any list maintained under subsection (1) above is referred to in this Act as an “approved medical practitioner”.