SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Application of Certain Provisions to Patients Subject to Hospital and Guardianship Orders

Part II Patients Subject to Special Restrictions

3

In section 17—

a

in subsection (1) after the word “may” there shall be inserted the words “with the consent of the Secretary of State”;

F1aa

subsections (2A) and (2B) shall be omitted;

b

in subsection (4) after the words F2“the responsible clinician” and after the words “that clinician” there shall be inserted the words “or the Secretary of State”; and

c

in subsection (5) after the word “recalled” there shall be inserted the words F3 “by the responsible clinician” , and for the words from “he has ceased” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “the expiration of the period of F4twelve months beginning with the first day of his absence on leave”.