Coronavirus Act 2020

Conveyance of accused or convicted persons to hospital

13 (1) The following provisions have effect as if references to conveying or admitting a person to hospital within a specified period were references to doing so within that period or as soon as practicable after the end of that period—

(a) Article 42(9)(c) (including as applied by Article 43(5)) (period within which accused person remanded to hospital for report on mental condition or treatment must be conveyed and admitted to hospital);

(b) Article 46(2) and (3) (period within which person in respect of whom hospital order or interim hospital order is made must be conveyed and admitted to hospital).

(2) Article 46(4) has effect as if for “within the period of 28 days referred to in” there were substituted “in accordance with”.

(3) Article 53(2) (including as applied by Article 54(3)) (period within which person subject to transfer direction must be received into hospital) has effect as if for “14 days” there were substituted “28 days”.