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(1)Where a compulsory treatment order or an interim compulsory treatment order—
(a)authorises the detention of a patient in a hospital specified in the order; or
(b)imposes a requirement on a patient to reside at a place specified in the order,
this section authorises the removal, before the expiry of the period of 7 days beginning with the appropriate day, of the patient in respect of whom the order is made to that hospital or, as the case may be, place.
(2)In subsection (1) above, “appropriate day” means the day on which—
(a)a compulsory treatment order or, as the case may be, an interim compulsory treatment order authorising detention of a patient in hospital is made; or
(b)a compulsory treatment order is varied so as to authorise the detention of a patient in the hospital specified in the order.
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