Part 17Patient representation etc.

Chapter 3Detention in conditions of excessive security

Interpretation of Chapter

273Interpretation of Chapter

F1(1)

In this Chapter—

relevant Health Board” means, in relation to a patient of such description as may be specified in regulations, the Health Board, or Special Health Board—

(a)

of such description as may be so specified; or

(b)

determined under such regulations; and

F2relevant patient” means a patient whose detention in hospital is authorised by—

(a)

if the patient is also subject to a restriction order, a compulsion order,

(b)

a hospital direction, or

(c)

a transfer for treatment direction.

F3(2)

In this Chapter, a reference to a hospital may be read as a reference to a hospital unit.

(3)

For the purposes of this Chapter, “hospital unit” means any part of a hospital which is treated as a separate unit.