Part 7Compulsory treatment orders

Chapter 1Application for, and making of, orders

Making of order etc.

67Order authorising detention: ancillary authorisation

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.