Search Legislation

Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015

 Help about what version

What Version

 Help about advanced features

Advanced Features

 Help about opening options

Opening OptionsExpand opening options

Changes over time for: Section 48

 Help about opening options

Alternative versions:

Changes to legislation:

There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015, Section 48. Help about Changes to Legislation

48Transfer from specified unitS

This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

(1)The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 is amended as follows.

(2)After section 218 there is inserted—

218ATransfer of patient from specified hospital unit

(1)Subsection (2) below applies where—

(a)a patient is subject to—

(i)a compulsion order and a restriction order,

(ii)a hospital direction, or

(iii)a transfer for treatment direction, and

(b)that order or (as the case may be) direction specifies the hospital unit in which the patient is to be detained.

(2)If the condition in subsection (3) below is satisfied, the managers of the hospital in which the patient is detained may transfer the patient to another hospital unit within the same hospital.

(3)The condition is that the Scottish Ministers consent to the transfer.

(4)In relation to a transfer or proposed transfer under subsection (2) above, section 218(4) to (14) of this Act applies subject to the following modifications—

(a)a reference to section 218(2) is to be read as a reference to subsection (2) above,

(b)in subsection (10)(a), a reference to section 218(3) is to be read as a reference to subsection (3) above,

(c)in subsection (12), a reference to the hospital from which the patient is transferred is to be read as a reference to the hospital in which the patient is detained,

(d)in subsections (13)(b) and (14), a reference to the hospital to which the patient is transferred is to be read as a reference to the hospital unit to which the patient is transferred.

(5)For the purposes of this section, “hospital unit” means any part of a hospital which is treated as a separate unit..

Commencement Information

I1S. 48 in force at 30.6.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch.

Back to top

Options/Help