Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Lack of Capacity: Protection from Liability, and Safeguards Chapter 2 – Additional Safeguards for Serious Interventions
The additional safeguard provisions refer to acts. This is because section 9 applies to individual acts. This does not mean, however, that every act that forms part of a larger, more complex intervention in P’s life, such as a deprivation of liberty, has to be considered separately. Any consideration of P’s case carried out before such an intervention should take account of the different acts. It will depend on the circumstances whether, as the intervention proceeds, a further process of consideration is required for the purposes of Part 2 in respect of a particular act.