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MENTAL HEALTH (TRANSITIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2013 (NO. 69 OF 2013) - SECT 20

Suspended community treatment orders
If a community treatment order is in place on 16 February 2014 and suspended under section 44(3), (3A) or (3B) of the old Act –
(a) the order continues to be suspended while the person remains a patient in the hospital and reactivates, according to its terms, as a treatment order under the new Act on the discharge of the person from the hospital, unless it has otherwise ceased to have effect; and
(b) the person's treating medical practitioner must –
(i) apply to the Tribunal under section 47(2)(a) of the new Act; or
(ii) discharge the order under section 49 of the new Act, if the treating medical practitioner is an approved medical practitioner; or
(iii) apply to an approved medical practitioner for the discharge of the order if the treating medical practitioner is not an approved medical practitioner.



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