Legislation

Section 39 – Information as to hospitals

Introduction

This section empowers a court that is minded to make a hospital order (including an interim hospital order) to request from NHS bodies information about suitable available hospitals (subsection (1)). NHS bodies are obliged to comply with such requests. Guidance about how NHS bodes should respond to requests is at para. 22.7 of the Code […]

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