Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1A inserted (31.3.2005) by Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), s. 60, Sch. 2 (with Sch. 12 paras. 8, 9); S.I. 2005/579, art. 3(b)
4(1)A supervision order may, if the court is satisfied as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below, include a requirement that the supervised person shall submit, during the whole of the period specified in the order or during such part of that period as may be so specified, to treatment by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner with a view to the improvement of his mental condition.E+W
(2)The court may impose such a requirement only if satisfied on the written or oral evidence of two or more registered medical practitioners, at least one of whom is duly registered, that the mental condition of the supervised person—
(a)is such as requires and may be susceptible to treatment; but
(b)is not such as to warrant the making of a hospital order within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983.
(3)The treatment required under this paragraph by any such order shall be such one of the following kinds of treatment as may be specified in the order, that is to say—
(a)treatment as a non-resident patient at such institution or place as may be specified in the order; and
(b)treatment by or under the direction of such registered medical practitioner as may be so specified;
but the nature of the treatment shall not be specified in the order except as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above.]