C1C2 Part III Patients Concerned in Criminal Proceedings or Under Sentence

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Hospital and guardianship orders

39 Information as to hospitals.

1

Where a court is minded to make a hospital order or interim hospital order in respect of any person it may request—

a

the F12integrated care boardF9... F1Local Health Board for F2the area in which that person resides or last resided; or

b

F11F13NHS England orF3the National Assembly for Wales or any otherF12integrated care boardF9... F1Local Health Board that appears to the court to be appropriate,

to furnish the court with such information as F2that F12integrated care boardF9... F1Local Health BoardF4or F10F13NHS England or the National Assembly for Wales have or can reasonably obtain with respect to the hospital or hospitals (if any) in F2their area or elsewhere at which arrangements could be made for the admission of that person in pursuance of the order, and F2that F12integrated care boardF9... F1Local Health BoardF5or F10F13NHS England or the National Assembly for Wales shall comply with any such request.

F81ZA

A request under this section to F13NHS England may relate only to services or facilities the provision of which F13NHS England arranges.

F61A

In relation to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years, subsection (1) above shall have effect as if the reference to the making of a hospital order included a reference to a remand under section 35 or 36 above or the making of an order under section 44 below.

1B

Where the person concerned has not attained the age of 18 years, the information which may be requested under subsection (1) above includes, in particular, information about the availability of accommodation or facilities designed so as to be specially suitable for patients who have not attained the age of 18 years.

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