SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Supervised community treatment: further amendments to 1983 Act
12Discharge
1
Section 25 (restrictions on discharge by nearest relative) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1), after “shall not be made” insert “under section 23 above”.
3
After that subsection insert—
1A
Subsection (1) above shall apply to an order for the discharge of a community patient as it applies to an order for the discharge of a patient who is liable to be detained in a hospital, but with the reference to the managers of the hospital being read as a reference to the managers of the responsible hospital.
4
In subsection (2), after “treatment” insert “, or in respect of a community patient,”.