Part 7

Compulsory treatment orders
Chapter 1

Application for, and making of, orders

Extension of short-term detention: special case

Extension of short-term detention pending determination of application
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1
Where—
a
the detention of a patient in hospital is authorised by—
i
a short-term detention certificate; or
ii
an extension certificate; and
b
before the expiry of the period of detention so authorised, an application is made under section 63 of this Act,
the measures mentioned in subsection (2) below are authorised.
2
Those measures are—
a
the detention in hospital of the patient for the period of 5 days beginning with the expiry of the period for which the certificate authorises the detention of the patient in hospital; and
b
the giving to the patient, in accordance with Part 16 of this Act, of medical treatment.
3
In reckoning the period of days mentioned in subsection (2)(a) above, there shall be left out of account any day which is not a working day.
4
In this section “working day” has the meaning given by section 47(8) of this Act.