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Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984
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F135C Duration and renewal of community care order.S
(1)Subject to section 35J of this Act and the following provisions of this section, a community care order shall have effect for such period, not exceeding 6 months, as may be specified in the order.
(2)A community care order may be renewed under this section—
(a)from the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (1) above, for a further period not exceeding 6 months;
(b)from the expiry of any period of renewal under paragraph (a) above, for a further period not exceeding one year, and so on for periods not exceeding one year at a time.
(3)The special medical officer shall, within the period of two months ending with the day on which the community care order, if not renewed, would expire—
(a)examine the patient; and
(b)consult—
(i)the patient and, if practicable and the patient does not object, his nearest relative;
(ii)the patient’s after-care officer;
(iii)the other persons concerned with the patient’s medical treatment or professionally concerned with any aspect of the after-care services provided for him under section 8 of this Act; and
(iv)any person who the special medical officer believes plays a substantial part in the care of the patient but is not professionally concerned with the after-care services so provided.
(4)If the patient has a propensity to violent or dangerous behaviour the responsible medical officer may consult the patient’s nearest relative notwithstanding any objection by the patient to such consultation under subsection (3)(b)(i) above.
(5)If, after the examination and consultation required by subsection (3) above and any consultation under subsection (4) above, the special medical officer considers that the conditions set out in section 35B(8)(a) and (b) of this Act continue to apply to the patient, he shall send to the Mental Welfare Commission a report to that effect in the prescribed form, and the community care order shall thereby be renewed for such period as is, subject to subsection (2) above, specified in the report.
(6)The special medical officer shall notify—
(a)the patient and any other person who has been consulted under subsection (3)(b)(i) or (iv) or (4) above; and
(b)the patient’s after-care officer,
of any renewal of the community care order and of the period of such renewal.
(7)Subsection (10) of section 35A of this Act shall apply in relation to a renewal of a community care order under this section as it applies in relation to a community care order made under that section, but with the substitution of references to subsections (3)(b)(i) and (4) of this section for the references to subsections (3)(a) and (4) of section 35B.
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F1S. 35C inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 52, ss. 4(1), 7(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 35C modified (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/742, arts. 1, 3, Sch. para. 3
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