Regulation 16

Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983 (as amended)

N.B. These Regulations have been superseded: see Mental Health Regulations for details.

Contents

Regulations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10A, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Schedules: 1, 2

Explanatory note

Regulation

Consent to treatment

16.—(1) For the purposes of section 57 (treatment requiring consent and a second opinion)—

(a) the form of treatment to which that section shall apply, in addition to the treatment mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of that section (any surgical operation for destroying brain tissue or for destroying the functioning of brain tissue), shall be the surgical implantation of hormones for the purpose of reducing male sexual drive;

(b) the certificates required for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) and (b) of that section shall be in the form set out in Form 37.

(2) For the purposes of section 58 (treatment requiring consent or a second opinion)—

(a) the form of treatment to which that section shall apply, in addition to the administration of medicine mentioned in subsection (1)(b) of that section, shall be electro-convulsive therapy; and

(b) the certificates required for the purposes ofsubsection (3)(a) and (b) of that section shall be in the form set out in Forms 38 and 39 respectively.

Amendments

None.