Transitional provision
5. Where, immediately before these Regulations come into force, a clinical commissioning group has responsibility to arrange for the provision of after-care services for a person under section 117(2) of the 1983 Act by virtue of paragraphs (1) and (2)(a) of regulation 14 of the principal Regulations, responsibility shall remain with that clinical commissioning group—
(a)for as long as that person needs after-care; or
(b)until that person is detained under a provision referred to in section 117(1) of the 1983 Act(1).
Section 117(1) of the 1983 Act was amended by section 55 of, and paragraph 12(17) of Schedule 4 to, the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.43); and section 1(2) of, and paragraph 15(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to, the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 (c.52).