PART VF1THE REVIEW TRIBUNAL
Applications and references concerning Part III patients
Applications and references to the tribunal concerning patients subject to hospital and guardianship orders, other than restricted patients74
1
Articles 71(3), 72 and 73 shall apply in relation to a patient admitted to a hospital in pursuance of a hospital order or placed under guardianship by a guardianship order as they apply to a patient detained in hospital or subject to guardianship under Part II.
2
Without prejudice to paragraph (1), an application to the Review Tribunal may also be made in respect of a patient admitted to a hospital in pursuance of a hospital order or placed under guardianship by a guardianship order, as follows, that is to say—
a
by the patient, within the period of 6 months beginning with the date of the order; and
b
by the nearest relative of the patient, within the period of 12 months beginning with the date of the order and in any subsequent period of 12 months.
3
In this Article any reference to a hospital order or guardianship order shall include a reference to any order or direction under Part III or any other statutory provision having the same affect as such an order.
4
This Article does not apply in the case of a patient who is a restricted patient within the meaning of Article 84.
Pt. V heading substituted (2.12.2019) by Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 18), s. 307(2), Sch. 8 para. 38 (with ss. 285-287); S.R. 2019/163, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.R. 2019/190, art. 2)