Criminal Justice Act 2003

207 Mental health treatment requirement E+W

(1) In this Part, “mental health treatment requirement”, in relation to a community order or suspended sentence order, means a requirement that the offender must submit, during a period or periods specified in the order, to treatment by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner or a [F1 registered psychologist] (or both, for different periods) with a view to the improvement of the offender’s mental condition.

(2) The treatment required must be such one of the following kinds of treatment as may be specified in the relevant order—

(a) treatment as a resident patient in [F2 a] care home within the meaning of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14) [F3 , an independent hospital] or a hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), but not in hospital premises where high security psychiatric services within the meaning of that Act are provided;

(b) treatment as a non-resident patient at such institution or place as may be specified in the order;

(c) treatment by or under the direction of such registered medical practitioner or [F1 registered psychologist] (or both) as may be so specified;

but the nature of the treatment is not to be specified in the order except as mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(3) A court may not by virtue of this section include a mental health treatment requirement in a relevant order unless—

(a) the court is satisfied F4 ... that the mental condition of the offender—

(i) is such as requires and may be susceptible to treatment, but

(ii) is not such as to warrant the making of a hospital order or guardianship order within the meaning of [F5 the Mental Health Act 1983];

(b) the court is also satisfied that arrangements have been or can be made for the treatment intended to be specified in the order (including arrangements for the reception of the offender where he is to be required to submit to treatment as a resident patient); and

(c) the offender has expressed his willingness to comply with such a requirement.

(4) While the offender is under treatment as a resident patient in pursuance of a mental health requirement of a relevant order, his responsible officer shall carry out the supervision of the offender to such extent only as may be necessary for the purpose of the revocation or amendment of the order.

[F6 (4A) In subsection (2) “independent hospital”—

(a) in relation to England, means a hospital as defined by section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 that is not a health service hospital as defined by that section; and

(b) in relation to Wales, has the same meaning as in the Care Standards Act 2000.]

F7 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F8 (6) In this section and section 208, “ registered psychologist ” means a person registered in the part of the register maintained under [F9 the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001] which relates to practitioner psychologists. ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 207(1)(2)(c) substituted (1.7.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), arts. 1(9), 4(2), Sch. 5 para. 7(a)(i); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(d)

F2 Word in s. 207(2)(a) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), art. 14(a)(i)

F3 Words in s. 207(2)(a) inserted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), art. 14(a)(ii)

F4 Words in s. 207(3)(a) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 73(2)(a), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(a)

F5 Words in s. 207(3)(a)(ii) substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 73(2)(b), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(a)

F6 S. 207(4A) inserted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), art. 14(b)

F7 S. 207(5) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 73(3), 151(1); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(a)

F8 S. 207(6) substituted (1.7.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), arts. 1(9), 4(2), Sch. 5 para. 7(b); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(d)

F9 Words in s. 207(6) substituted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 213(8)(b), 306(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 207(3)(a)(ii) excluded (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 178(5), 183(1), 202, 383; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4

C2 S. 207(3)(c) excluded (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 182(3), 383, Sch. 6 para. 4(1); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4

Commencement Information

I1 S. 207 wholly in force at 4.4.2005, see s. 336(3) and S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 13 (subject to art. 2(2), Sch. 2)