Sentencing Act 2020

Alternative arrangements for mental health treatment E+W

30 (1) Where— E+W

(a) an offender is being treated in pursuance of a mental health treatment requirement, and

(b) the treatment practitioner is of the opinion that part of the treatment can be better or more conveniently given in an institution or at a place—

(i) which is not specified in the youth rehabilitation order, and

(ii) where the treatment of the offender will be given by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner or registered psychologist,

the treatment practitioner may make arrangements (“alternative arrangements”) for the offender to be treated accordingly.

(2) Alternative arrangements may be made only if the offender has expressed willingness for the treatment to be given under those arrangements.

(3) Alternative arrangements may provide for the offender to receive part of the treatment as a resident patient in an institution or place which could not have been specified for that purpose in the youth rehabilitation order.

(4) Where alternative arrangements are made—

(a) the treatment for which the alternative arrangements provide is to be deemed to be treatment to which the offender is required to submit in pursuance of the mental health treatment requirement, and

(b) the treatment practitioner must give a notice in writing to the offender's responsible officer, specifying the institution or place where that treatment is to be carried out.

(5) In this paragraph—

• “registered psychologist” means a person for the time being registered in the part of the register maintained under the Health Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254) which relates to practitioner psychologists;

• “treatment practitioner” means the medical practitioner or registered psychologist by or under whose direction the offender is being treated in pursuance of the mental health treatment requirement.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 6 para. 30 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2