50 Further provisions as to prisoners under sentence
Mental Health Act 1983 (1983 c 20) | Legislation

50  Further provisions as to prisoners under sentence

(1)     Where a transfer direction and a restriction direction have been given in respect of a person serving a sentence of imprisonment and before [his release date] the Secretary of State is notified by the [responsible clinician], any other [approved clinician] or [the appropriate tribunal] that that person no longer requires treatment in hospital for mental disorder or that no effective treatment for his disorder can be given in the hospital to which he has been removed, the Secretary of State may—

(a)     by warrant direct that he be remitted to any prison or other institution in which he might have been detained if he had not been removed to hospital, there to be dealt with as

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