583Intensive monitored supervision order

583 Intensive monitored supervision order

(1) An intensive monitored supervision order must—

(b) specify the date on which the order commences; and

(c) specify the date on which the order ends, being no more than 28 days after the day on which the order is made, beginning on and including the day the order is made; and

(d) identify the supervision plan prepared for the patient which will operate at the same time as the order; and

(e) include any other prescribed matter.

(2) An intensive monitored supervision order authorises the authorised psychiatrist of the Institute, for the period specified in the order—

(a) to place the patient in intensive monitored supervision in a supervision unit located at premises where the Institute provides secure services to security patients, forensic patients or treatment patients; and

(b) limit the patient's contact with others.

(3) In doing so, the authorised psychiatrist must—

(a) consider the safety of others and act to prevent the possible harm with which the order is concerned; and

(b) confine the patient in the supervision unit in the least restrictive way possible; and

(c) act to advance the patient's supervision plan.

(4) An intensive monitored supervision order does not prevent a patient from moving outside the supervision unit or having contact with other persons if permitted to do so by the authorised psychiatrist subject to any conditions determined by the authorised psychiatrist.

The authorised psychiatrist may permit the patient to spend time in in a secure outdoor area with one other person.