PART 2CRIMINAL CASES
Variation of certain orders
I145Variation of interim compulsion orders
1
The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.
2
In section 53B (review and extension of interim compulsion order)—
a
in subsection (4)—
i
the words from “if satisfied” to the end become paragraph (a),
ii
after that paragraph (as so numbered) there is inserted
, and
b
if it seems appropriate to do so, direct that the offender be admitted to the hospital specified in the direction.
b
in subsection (6), after the word “order” there is inserted “
or make a direction specifying a hospital
”
,
c
after subsection (7) there is inserted—
7A
Where a direction is made under subsection (4) above, the interim compulsion order has effect as if the hospital specified in the direction were the hospital specified in the order.