PART 11APPLICATIONS UNDER PART 4A OF THE FAMILY LAW ACT 1996 OR PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION ACT 2003

Hospital orders or guardianship orders under the Mental Health Act 198311.17.

(1)

Where the court makes a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, the court officer must—

(a)

send to the hospital any information which will be of assistance in dealing with the patient; and

(b)

inform the persons directed by the court to be informed about when the patient is being transferred to hospital.

(2)

Where the court makes a guardianship order under the Mental Health Act 1983, the court officer must send any information which will be of assistance in dealing with the patient to—

(a)

the patient's guardian; and

(b)

where the guardian is a person other than the local services authority, the local services authority.