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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Mental Health (National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service: Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 No. 356
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These Regulations amend the Mental Health (Safety and Security) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”) and the Mental Health (Detention in Conditions of Excessive Security) (Scotland) Regulations (“the 2015 Regulations”) in connection with the National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service, Foxgrove, Ayrshire Central Hospital Campus, Kilwinning Road, Irvine (“the NSAIS”).
The 2005 Regulations authorise measures, subject to conditions, to protect the safety and security of patients and others in hospital. The measures can be taken in respect of a patient detained in hospital who is a “specified person”. Regulation 2 of the 2005 Regulations provides that a person is a “specified person” for the purpose of those Regulations if certain conditions are met. One way in which a person can be a specified person is if they are detained in a particular hospital listed in regulation 2(2)(a).
Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends the 2005 Regulations to add the NSAIS to the list of hospitals in regulation 2(2)(a) of the 2005 Regulations.
The 2015 Regulations make provision in connection with applications to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (“the Tribunal”) under sections 264 and 268 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”). An application to the Tribunal under one of those sections is an application seeking an order declaring that the patient is being detained in conditions of excessive security.
An application can be made by, or on behalf of, a patient under section 268 of the 2003 Act if the patient is being detained in a “qualifying hospital”. Regulation 4 of the 2015 Regulations specifies particular hospitals or hospital units as being “qualifying hospitals” for the purposes of sections 268 to 271 of the 2003 Act.
Regulation 3 of these Regulations amends the 2015 Regulations to add the NSAIS to the list of qualifying hospitals for the purposes of section 268 to 271 of the 2003 Act.
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