PART VI

Mental Disorder

Interim compulsion orders

Interim compulsion order: supplementary
53A
1
If, before the
end of the day following the
7 days beginning with the day on which the interim compulsion order is made, it appears to the court, or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers, that, by reason of emergency or other special circumstances, it is not reasonably practicable for the offender to be admitted to the hospital specified in the order, the court, or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers, may direct that the offender be admitted to the hospital specified in the direction.
2
Where—
a
the court makes a direction under subsection (1) above, it shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after making the direction, inform the person having custody of the offender; and
b
the Scottish Ministers make such a direction, they shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after making the direction, inform—
i
the court; and
ii
the person having custody of the offender.
3
Where a direction is made under subsection (1) above, the interim compulsion order shall have effect as if the hospital specified in the direction were the hospital specified in the order.
4
In this section, “
court
” means the court which made the interim compulsion order.
Ss. 53-53D and cross-heading substituted (5.10.2005) for s. 53 and cross-heading by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13), ss. 131, 333(1)-(4); S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (with savings for s. 53 by virtue of S.S.I. 2005/452, art. 33(14))
Ss. 53-53D and cross-heading substituted (5.10.2005) for s. 53 and cross-heading by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13), ss. 131, 333(1)-(4); S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (with savings for s. 53 by virtue of S.S.I. 2005/452, art. 33(14))
Words in s. 53A(1) substituted (30.9.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 42(3), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 21(a))