Community category—orders about treatment in community
446 Community category—orders about treatment in community
This section applies if the tribunal—
confirms the category of the forensic order as community; or
changes the category of the forensic order to community.
The tribunal must—
order that an authorised doctor or a senior practitioner under the Forensic Disability Act must not change the category of the order to inpatient; or
approve that an authorised doctor under section 212 or a senior practitioner under the Forensic Disability Act, section 20 may, at a future time, change the nature or extent of treatment in the community received by the person, to the extent and subject to the conditions decided by the tribunal.
Example of a change of extent of treatment in the community—
changing the category of the forensic order from community to inpatient, with or without limited community treatment
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