SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 9Community orders and suspended sentence orders: requirements
PART 9Mental health treatment requirement
18Alternative arrangements for mental health treatment made by practitioner
1
This paragraph applies where—
a
an offender is being treated in pursuance of a mental health treatment requirement, and
b
the treatment practitioner considers that part of the treatment can be better or more conveniently given in or at an institution or place—
i
which is not specified in the relevant order, and
ii
where the treatment will be given by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner or registered psychologist.
2
The treatment practitioner may make arrangements (“alternative arrangements”) for the offender to be treated accordingly.
3
Alternative arrangements may be made only if the offender has expressed willingness for the treatment to be given under those arrangements.
4
Alternative arrangements may provide for the offender to receive part of the treatment as a resident patient in an institution or place which could not have been specified for that purpose in the relevant order.
5
Where alternative arrangements are made—
a
the treatment for which the alternative arrangements provide is to be deemed to be treatment to which the offender must submit in pursuance of the mental health treatment requirement, and
b
the treatment practitioner must give a notice in writing to the offender’s responsible officer, specifying the institution or place where that treatment is to be carried out.
6
In this paragraph—
“registered psychologist” means a person registered in the part of the register maintained under the Health Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254) which relates to practitioner psychologists;
“treatment practitioner” means the medical practitioner or registered psychologist by or under whose direction the offender is being treated in pursuance of the mental health treatment requirement.