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Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
115Determination of an application for an order—young person who is not a patient
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115 Determination of an application for an order—young person who is not a patient
(i) the young person who is not a patient has given their informed consent in writing to receiving the course of electroconvulsive treatment; or
(ii) the young person does not have capacity to give informed consent to receiving the course of electroconvulsive treatment; and
(A) the young person's medical treatment decision maker has given informed consent in writing to the course of electroconvulsive treatment; and
(B) there is no less restrictive way for the young person to be treated; or
(b) make an order refusing to authorise the treatment.