768Community visitors

768 Community visitors

(1) Despite the repeal of section 221 of the Mental Health Act 2014, the Community Visitors Mental Health Board as established and in existence under that section as in force immediately before its repeal continues on and from that repeal as the Community Visitors Mental Health Board under section 404 as if it had been established under that section.

(2) A person holding office as a community visitor immediately before the repeal of the Mental Health Act 2014 continues, subject to this Act, to hold that office on and after that repeal for the balance of the term for which the person was appointed and on the same terms and conditions as those on which the person held that office immediately before that repeal.

(3) If, immediately before the repeal of the Mental Health Act 2014, a person receiving mental health and wellbeing services at a prescribed premises, or any person on their behalf, made a request under section 219 of the Mental Health Act 2014 to be visited by a community visitor and the person in charge of the prescribed premises had not yet advised a community visitor that a request had been made, that request, on and after that repeal is taken to be a request made under section 402.