PART VI

Mental Disorder

Effect of assessment and treatment orders on pre-existing mental health orders

Effect of assessment order and treatment order on pre-existing mental health order
52U
1
This section applies where—
a
a patient is subject to a relevant order; and
b
an assessment order or a treatment order is made in respect of the patient.
2
The relevant order shall cease to authorise the measures specified in it for the period during which the patient is subject to the assessment order or, as the case may be, treatment order.
4
In this section, a “
relevant order
” means—
a
an interim compulsory treatment order made under section 65(2) of the 2003 Act; and
b
a compulsory treatment order made under section 64(4)(a) of that 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)