Reg 9 text

Conveyance to hospital on transfer

9.—(1) Where the conditions of regulation 7(2) or 8(3) are satisfied, the authority for transfer given in accordance with those regulations shall be sufficient authority for the following persons to take the patient and convey him to the hospital to which he is being transferred within the periods specified:—

(a) in a case to which regulation 7(2) applies, an officer ofthe managers of either hospital, or any person authorised by the managers of the hospital to which the patient is being transferred, within the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the authority for transfer;

(b) in a case to which regulation 8(3) applies, an officer of, or any person authorised by, the responsible local social services authority, within the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the patient was last examined by a medical practitioner for the purposes of regulation 8(3)(b).

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply to a patient who—

(a) is liable to be detained under the Act and is removed to another hospital in circumstances to which section 19(3) applies, as if the authority given by the managers for that transfer were an authority for transfer given in accordance with regulation 7(2);

(b) is liable to be detained in a special hospital and who, pursuant to a direction given by the Secretary of State under section 123(1) or (2), is removed to another special hospital or transferred to another hospital, as if that direction were an authority for transfer given in accordance with regulation 7(2).

(3) In a case to which regulation 7(4)(a) applies, an officer of or any other person authorised by the managers of the mental nursing home may take and convey the patient to the mental nursing home to which he is being transferred.

Amendments

None.