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SCHEDULE 3U.K.Supervised community treatment: further amendments to 1983 Act

Duty to give informationU.K.

31U.K.In section 133 (duty of managers of hospitals to inform nearest relatives of discharge), after subsection (1) insert—

(1A)The reference in subsection (1) above to a patient who is to be discharged includes a patient who is to be discharged from hospital under section 17A above.

(1B)Subsection (1) above shall also apply in a case where a community patient is discharged under section 23 or 72 above (otherwise than by virtue of an order for discharge made by his nearest relative), but with the reference in that subsection to the managers of the hospital or registered establishment being read as a reference to the managers of the responsible hospital.