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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 April 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

My Lords, this is a minor and technical amendment which would reduce from six months to three months the period within which an application to the tribunal may be made, where a patient is transferred from guardianship to a hospital under Section 19. We are making this change to ensure that the relevant period within which transferred guardianship patients can make an application to the tribunal aligns with the relevant period for Section 3 patients. This is consequential to the changes that the Bill makes in Clause 29 to reduce from six months to three months the initial detention period for patients admitted for treatment, as part of our intention to provide patients with faster access to tribunals to review relevant decisions about their care. I beg to move.

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