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Valid from 01/04/1996
(1)Where a patient is subject to after-care under supervision (or, if he has not yet left hospital, is to be so subject after he leaves hospital), the responsible after-care bodies have power to impose any of the requirements specified in subsection (3) below for the purpose of securing that the patient receives the after-care services provided for him under section 117 below.
(2)In this Act “the responsible after-care bodies”, in relation to a patient, means the bodies which have (or will have) the duty under section 117 below to provide after-care services for the patient.
(3)The requirements referred to in subsection (1) above are—
(a)that the patient reside at a specified place;
(b)that the patient attend at specified places and times for the purpose of medical treatment, occupation, education or training; and
(c)that access to the patient be given, at any place where the patient is residing, to the supervisor, any registered medical practitioner or any approved social worker or to any other person authorised by the supervisor.
(4)A patient subject to after-care under supervision may be taken and conveyed by, or by any person authorised by, the supervisor to any place where the patient is required to reside or to attend for the purpose of medical treatment, occupation, education or training.
(5)A person who demands—
(a)to be given access to a patient in whose case a requirement has been imposed under subsection (3)(c) above; or
(b)to take and convey a patient in pursuance of subsection (4) above,
shall, if asked to do so, produce some duly authenticated document to show that he is a person entitled to be given access to, or to take and convey, the patient.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 25A-25J inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 52, ss. 1(1), 7(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 25D applied (with modifications) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/295, reg. 2, Sch.
C2S. 25D(1): functions of local authority may be responsibility of an executive of the authority (1.4.2000) by virtue S.I. 2000/695, reg. 3(2)(b), Sch. 2
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