Clause 40
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Frank Cook (Stockton North, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
New clause 17—Removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment——
‘(1) The 1983 Act is amended as follows.
(2) In section 47 (Removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment, etc) in subsection (1) leave out from “Secretary of State” to the end of the subsection and insert—
“must by warrant direct that that person be removed and detained in such hospital as may be specified in the direction: and a direction under this section shall be known as “a transfer direction”.’.