SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE A1Hospital and care home residents: deprivation of liberty
Part 5Urgent authorisations
Request for extension of duration
84
1
This paragraph applies if the managing authority make a request under paragraph 77 for the supervisory body to extend the duration of the original authorisation.
2
The managing authority must keep a written record of why they have made the request.
3
The managing authority must give the relevant person notice that they have made the request.
4
The supervisory body may extend the duration of the original authorisation if it appears to them that—
a
the managing authority have made the required request for a standard authorisation,
b
there are exceptional reasons why it has not yet been possible for that request to be disposed of, and
c
it is essential for the existing detention to continue until the request is disposed of.
5
The supervisory body must keep a written record that the request has been made to them.
6
In this paragraph and paragraphs 85 and 86—
a
“original authorisation” and “existing detention” have the same meaning as in paragraph 77;
b
the required request for a standard authorisation is the request that is referred to in paragraph 76(2) or (3).
Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )