Legislation

Section 19A – Regulations as to assignment of responsibility for community patients

Introduction

This section permits regulations to provide for transfer of responsibility for a community patient between hospitals. If such a transfer takes place, the patient’s underlying application for treatment under section 3 (or hospital order / similar direction in the case of criminal patients) is to be read as if it had always referred to the […]

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