Clause 34
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Angela Browning (Deputy Chairman (Organising and Campaigning), Conservative Party; Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
My understanding—I do not claim to be an expert—is that, should the patient subsequently lose capacity during that period, there need be no delay. A section 62 treatment would be given, so the Minister need not worry that there would be a long delay for somebody who had moved from having capacity to losing it in the interim.