Mental Health Act 2015
162Making of emergency electroconvulsive therapy order
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162 Making of emergency electroconvulsive therapy order (1) On application under section 160, the ACAT may make an emergency electroconvulsive therapy order in relation to a person who is at least 16 years old if satisfied that— (b) the person does not have decision-making capacity to consent to the administration of electroconvulsive therapy; and (c) the person does not have an advance consent direction refusing consent to electroconvulsive therapy; and
(d) the administration of the electroconvulsive therapy is necessary to— (i) save the person’s life; or (ii) prevent the likely onset of a risk to the person’s life within 3 days; and (e) either— (2) Also on application under section 160, the ACAT may make an emergency electroconvulsive therapy order in relation to a person who is at least 16 years old if the ACAT is satisfied that— (b) the person has decision-making capacity to consent to the administration of electroconvulsive therapy and consents to the administration of electroconvulsive therapy; and (c) the administration of the electroconvulsive therapy is necessary to— (i) save the person’s life; or (ii) prevent the likely onset of a risk to the person’s life within 3 days; and (d) either—
Records of electroconvulsive therapy Division 9.2.4