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FORENSIC DISABILITY ACT 2011 No. 13 - SECT 39

39 Continuation of existing forensic order

(1) On the admission of a forensic disability client to an authorised mental health service under a transfer order, the client's existing forensic order—

(a) applies to the client, as a patient, as if it were a forensic order (Mental Health Court—Disability) for the client's detention in the authorised mental health service; and
(b) is to be read, or continued in force, with the changes necessary—
(i) to make it consistent with the Mental Health Act; and
(ii) to adapt its operation to that Act.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect a power of the tribunal or Mental Health Court in relation to the existing forensic order.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the tribunal may carry out a review and make a decision about the existing forensic order under the Mental Health Act, chapter 6, part 3.

(4) In this section—

existing forensic order means the forensic order (Mental Health Court—Disability) that was the client's applicable forensic order immediately before the client's admission to the authorised mental health service.



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