PART VI

Mental Disorder

Treatment orders

Treatment order made ex proprio motu: application of section 52M
52N
1
Where—
a
a person has been charged with an offence;
b
the person has not been sentenced; and
c
it appears to the court that the person has a mental disorder,
the court may, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, make a treatment order in respect of that person.
2
The court may make a treatment order under subsection (1) above only if it would make one under subsections (2) to (10) of section 52M of this Act; and those subsections shall apply for the purposes of subsection (1) above as they apply for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section, references in those subsections to the person in respect of whom the application is made being construed as references to the person in respect of whom it is proposed to make a treatment order.
3
A treatment order made under subsection (1) above shall, for the purposes of this Act and the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)
(Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13), be treated as if made under section 52M(2) of this Act.
4
In this section, “
court
” has the same meaning as in section 52B of this Act.
Ss. 52A-52U inserted (5.10.2005) by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13), ss. 130, 333(1)-(4); S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as amended (27.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/465, art. 2, sch. 1 para. 32(13)(a)(i)(ii), sch. 2)