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Mentally disordered offendersSection 6Table of ContentsContentMore ResourcesPrevious: ProvisionNext: ProvisionPlain ViewPrint Options
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“59A Hospital directions.(1)Subject to subsection (2) and (3) below, where a person is convicted on indictment in the High Court or in the sheriff court of an offence punishable by imprisonment, the court may, in addition to any sentence of imprisonment which it has the power or the duty to impose, by a direction under this subsection (in this Act referred to as a “hospital direction”) authorise his admission to and detention in such hospital as may be specified in the direction.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not apply where the person convicted is a child.
(3)A hospital direction shall not be made unless—
(a)the court is satisfied on the written or oral evidence of two medical practitioners (complying with section 61 of this Act) that the grounds set out in section 17(1) of the M1Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 apply in relation to the offender;
(b)the medical practitioners mentioned in paragraph (a) above each describe the person as suffering from the same form of mental disorder, being mental illness or mental handicap, whether or not he is also described by either of them as suffering from the other form; and
(c)the court is satisfied that the hospital to be specified in the direction can admit the person in respect of whom it is to be made within 7 days of the direction being made.
(4)A State hospital shall not be specified in a hospital direction in respect of the detention of a person unless the court is satisfied, on the evidence of the medical practitioners which is taken into account under paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) above, that the person—
(a)on account of his dangerous violent or criminal propensities requires treatment under conditions of special security; and
(b)cannot suitably be cared for in a hospital other than a State hospital.
(5)A hospital direction shall specify the form of mental disorder from which, upon the evidence taken into account under paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) above, the person in respect of whom it is made is found to be suffering.
(6)The court by which a hospital direction is made may give such additional directions as it thinks fit for the conveyance of the person in respect of whom it is made to a place of safety and for his detention in that place pending his admission to hospital within the period mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (3) above.
(7)The court shall not make an additional direction under subsection (6) above directing the conveyance of the person concerned to a place of safety which is a residential establishment unless it is satisfied that the managers of that establishment are willing to receive him in the establishment.”.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Marginal CitationsM11984 c.36. (2)In section 60 of the 1995 Act (appeals against disposal related to mental disorder)—
(a)for the words “or a restriction order” there shall be substituted the words “ , a restriction order or a hospital direction ”; and
(b)for the words “order in” there shall be substituted the words “ order or, as the case may be, direction in ”.
(3)In section 204 of the 1995 Act (restrictions on the passing of sentence of imprisonment)—
(a)in subsection (2), the words from “and”, where it first occurs, to the end shall cease to have effect; and
(b)after subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2A)For the purpose of determining under subsection (2) above whether any other method of dealing with such a person is appropriate, the court shall take into account—
(a)such information as it has been able to obtain from an officer of a local authority or otherwise about his circumstances;
(b)any information before it concerning his character and mental and physical condition;
(c)its power to make a hospital direction in addition to imposing a sentence of imprisonment.”.
(4)In section 207 of the 1995 Act (detention of young offenders), after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(4A)In forming an opinion under subsection (3) above the court shall take into account its power to make a hospital direction in addition to imposing a period of detention.”.
(5)In section 307 of the 1995 Act (interpretation), after the definition of “hospital” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““hospital direction” has the meaning assigned to it by section 59A(1) of this Act;”.
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