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The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013

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5.  In the case of an employment and support allowance where a person who is subject to—

(a)section 45A or 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (power of higher courts to direct hospital admission; removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment etc.)(1);

(b)section 59A (hospital direction) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(2); or

(c)section 136 (transfer of prisoners for treatment for mental disorder) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003(3),

ceases, or is expected to cease, to be detained in a hospital (as defined in the Act, or the Act of the Scottish Parliament, to which the person is subject) for a period of less than a week, a superseding decision related to that person’s departure from, or return to, hospital takes effect from the day on which that change of circumstances occurs or is expected to occur.

(1)

1983. c. 20. Section 45A was inserted by section 46 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.43). Section 45A was amended by paragraph 39 of Schedule 37 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44) and sections 4 and 10 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 11 to, the Mental Health Act 2007 (c.12). Section 47 was amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 11 to, the Mental Health Act 2007, paragraphs 97 and 98 of Schedule 16 to the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c.52), paragraph 18 of Schedule 10 to the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c.28) and Schedule 6 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997. S.I. 1999/672 transferred functions under sections 45A and 47 to the National Assembly for Wales.

(2)

1995 c. 46. Section 59A was inserted by section 6(1) of the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48) and substituted by paragraph 8(6) of Schedule 4 to the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13).

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