The Mental Health (England and Wales Cross-border transfer: patients subject to requirements other than detention) (Scotland) Regulations 2008

Notification to relevant local authority

This section has no associated Executive Note

16.—(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after giving notice in accordance with regulation 14 the managers of the receiving hospital shall give notice to the relevant local authority of the matters mentioned in paragraph (2).

(2) Those matters are–

(a)the name of the patient;

(b)the address at which the patient is to reside in Scotland or the patient’s contact address in Scotland;

(c)the measure under the 2003 Act or the 1995 Act to which the patient will be treated as if that patient is subject by virtue of regulation 19; and

(d)the date on which the patient is expected to be received in Scotland.