8(1)The provisions listed in sub-paragraph (2) have effect as if references to conveying or admitting a person to hospital within a specified period were references to doing so within that period or as soon as practicable after the end of that period.
(2)Those provisions are—
(a)section 35(9) (including as applied by section 36(8)) (remand in hospital);
(b)section 40(1) and (3) (effect of hospital orders and interim hospital orders);
(c)section 45B(1) (effect of hospital directions and limitation directions).
(3)Section 47(2) (period within which person subject to transfer direction must be received into hospital) has effect as if for “14 days” there were substituted “28 days”.
(4)This paragraph applies, during a period for which it has effect, only in relation to a person in respect of whom an order or direction is made after the beginning of that period.