62 Mental health officer's duty to prepare proposed care plan
Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (2003 asp 13) | Legislation

62  Mental health officer's duty to prepare proposed care plan

(1)     This section applies where a mental health officer is required by section 57(1) of this Act to make an application under section 63 of this Act in respect of a patient.

(2)     The mental health officer shall, before the date on which, by virtue of section 57(7) of this Act, the application is to be made, prepare a plan (a “proposed care plan”) relating to the patient.

(3)     Before preparing the proposed care plan, the mental health officer shall consult—

(a)     the medical practitioners who provided the mental health reports relating to the patient;

(b)     subject to subsection (7) below, the persons mentioned in subsection (4) below; and

(c)     such other persons as the mental health officer considers appropriate.

(4)     The persons referred to in subsection (3)(b) above are persons who appear to the mental health officer to provide—

(a)     medical treatment of the kind that it is proposed to specify, by virtue of paragraph (d) of subsection (5) below, in the proposed care plan;

(b)     community care services, or relevant services, of the kind that it is proposed to specify, by virtue of paragraph (e) of that subsection,

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