[227R Mental health treatment requirement]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[Mental health treatment requirement]

[227R  Mental health treatment requirement]

[(1)     In this Act, a “mental health treatment requirement” is, in relation to an offender, a requirement that the offender must submit, during the specified period, to treatment by or under the direction of a registered medical practitioner or a registered psychologist (or both) with a view to improving the offender's mental condition.

(2)     The treatment to which an offender may be required to submit under a mental health treatment requirement is such of the kinds of treatment described in subsection (3) as is specified; but otherwise the nature of the treatment

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