Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13)

Part 7 S Compulsory treatment orders

Chapter 1 S Application for, and making of, orders

Application of Chapter where patient subject to hospital direction or transfer for treatment direction S

[F1 71A Compulsory treatment in hospital unit S

(1) In sections 62 to 68 of this Act, a reference to a hospital may be read as a reference to a hospital unit.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, “hospital unit” means any part of a hospital which is treated as a separate unit.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 71A inserted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 11(4), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch.