[60C Acquitted persons: detention for medical examination]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[60C  Acquitted persons: detention for medical examination]

[(1)     Subject to subsection (7) below, this section applies where a person charged with an offence is acquitted.

(2)     If the court by or before which the person is acquitted is satisfied—

(a)     on the written or oral evidence of two medical practitioners that the conditions mentioned in subsection (3) below are met in respect of the person; and

(b)     that it is not practicable to secure the immediate examination of the person by a medical practitioner,

the court may, immediately after the person is acquitted, make an order authorising the measures mentioned in subsection (4) below

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