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CH. 37

SCH. 1

Children and Young Persons Act 1963

(c) by cancelling any of the requirements of the order or by inserting therein (either in addition to or in substitution for any such requirement) any requirement which could be included in the order if it were then being made by the

court.

(2) A court shall not amend a supervision order under this paragraph

(a) by reducing the period of supervision specified in the order, or by extending that period beyond the end of three years from the date of the original order; or

(b) by inserting therein a requirement that the person under supervision shall submit to treatment for his mental condition unless the amending order is made within three months after the date of the original order.

6.-(1) Where an application for the discharge or amendment of a supervision order made in respect of any person is made by the person under whose supervision he is, the applicant may, for the purpose of the application, bring the person under supervision before the court.

(2) Where a court proposes to amend a supervision order by imposing a requirement that the person under supervision shall reside in an institution or submit to treatment for his mental condition the court shall summon the person under supervision to appear before the court.

Requirements as to residence and treatment

7. A supervision order may not contain any requirement as to the place of residence of the person placed under supervision or as to treatment for his mental condition unless he either is under the age of fourteen or consents to the requirement.

8. The period for which a person may be required by a super- vision order to reside in an approved probation hostel, an approved probation home or any other institution or to submit to treatment for his mental condition shall not exceed twelve months.

9. A supervision order requiring the person under supervision to submit to treatment for his mental condition shall specify one of the following as the treatment required, that is to say—

(a) treatment as a resident patient in a hospital or mental nursing home within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1959, but not in a special hospital within the meaning of that Act;

(b) treatment as a non-resident patient at an institution or

place specified in the order; or

(c) treatment by or under the direction of a fully registered

medical practitioner specified in the order.

10. Where a medical practitioner by whom or under whose direc- tion a person (in this paragraph referred to as "the patient ") is being

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