Official Report: Minutes of Evidence

The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): SR 2020/146, as discussed, substitutes two statutory forms, forms 10 and 23, for the purposes of decisions made under the Mental Health Order 1986. Form 10 relates to detention for treatment. The changes make the form clearer on the requirements that are needed to detain a person for treatment but do not change the requirements for detention for treatment. The changes to form 23 make explicit the requirements about the type of medical practitioner that is required to give a second opinion in normal and exceptional circumstances.

If members have no further issues that they wish to raise in connection with this statutory rule, I ask them to agree formally that the Committee for Health has considered SR 2020/146, the Mental Health (Nurses, Guardianship, Consent to Treatment and Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2020, and, subject to the report of the Examiner of Statutory Rules, has no objection to the rule.