
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Health (Relevant Health Board for Patients Detained in Conditions of Excessive Security) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st May 2006.
2 
For the purposes of Chapter 3 (detention in conditions of excessive security) of Part 17 (patient representation etc.) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, “relevant Health Board” means–
(a) in relation to a patient who resided ordinarily in Scotland immediately before the making of the compulsory treatment order, compulsion order, hospital direction or transfer for treatment direction by which their detention in hospital is authorised, the Health Board which, immediately before that order or, as the case may be, direction was made, would have had the function in accordance with article 2(1)(a) of the Functions of Health Boards (Scotland) Order 1991 to provide for the health care of the patient; and
(b) in relation to a patient who did not reside ordinarily in Scotland immediately before the making of such an order or, as the case may be, direction by which their detention in hospital is authorised, the Health Board for the area in which the hospital where the patient is detained is situated.
LEWIS MACDONALD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
22nd March 2006