Legislation

Section 17G – Effect of revoking community treatment order

Introduction

Revocation of a CTO resurrects a patient’s section 3 application, and linked liability to be detained in hospital, for treatment for mental disorder. Accordingly, the patient ceases to be a community patient and hospital managers regain their power to detain the patient under section 6(2), or under section 40 in the case of hospital order […]

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