Part 1: Main Provisions Section 10 and Schedules 8, 9, 10 and 11: Temporary modification of mental health and mental capacity legislation Northern Ireland
Schedule 10 contains temporary modifications of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 and related provisions including:
Providing for the modification of forms used in connection with the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order (the "1986 Order") or for such forms to be read as if they were so modified.
Modifying Part 2 of the 1986 Order relating to the application for detention and the periods of detention. This includes temporary modifications of the professional requirements to make applications and reports, and the length of time a person can be detained.
Modifying the period during which a person can be remanded in hospital.
Making modifications related to the medical evidence required before a court can make a remand or a healthcare disposal under the 1986 Order or make a determination of unfitness to plead or a direction for recording a finding that a person is not guilty by reason of insanity.
Making modifications in relation to the medical reports required before a transfer of a prisoner or other person detained in a custodial environment to a healthcare environment can take place.
Modifying the timescales within which an accused or convicted person is conveyed or admitted to hospital under the 1986 Order.
Allowing the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to designate a different hospital than the one it previously designated in order to allow maximum flexibility during a period when it may be impractical to admit a person to the previously designated hospital and it would be possible that a person may be admitted sooner to a different hospital.
Enabling the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to provide a modified Code of Practice during the time of the emergency.
Making transitional provision where the procedures in Part 2 of Schedule 10 to the Act are already underway at the end of the period for which the relevant provision of this Schedule has effect.
	Schedule 11 provides for modifications to the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (the "2016 Act"), including:
Introductory provisions - including interpretation and how to read the forms - that have been prescribed as a result of a subordinate legislation power in the 2016 Act.
Modifying parts of the 2016 Act relating to the functioning of additional safeguards, such as the operation of the panels. This includes temporary modifications on timings relating to when reports can be made, the length of time an authorisation can last and requirements relating to who must be consulted before a report for short-term detention for examination can be authorised.
Providing for an extension to the time limits for detaining a person in a place of safety.
Modifying the period during which a person can be remanded in hospital.
Modifying requirements for the medical evidence required before a court can make a remand or a healthcare disposal under Part 10 of the 2016 Act or make a determination of unfitness to plead or a direction for recording a finding that a person is not guilty by reason of insanity.
Modifying timescales for a medical practitioner making an extension report for a public protection order without restrictions.
Making modifications relating to medical reports required before a transfer of a prisoner or other person detained in a custodial environment to a healthcare environment can take place.
Modifying timescales within which a person subject to a hospital transfer direction is admitted to hospital under Part 10 of the 2016 Act.
Enabling the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to provide a modified Code of Practice.
Making transitional provision where the procedures in Part 2 of Schedule 11 are already underway at the end of the period for which the relevant provision of this Schedule has effect.
Providing a requirement for each health and social care trust to maintain certain records and to report and review how the provisions are used.
	The territorial extent and application of section 10(1) and Schedule 8 is England and Wales only, the territorial extent and application of section 10(2) and Schedule 9 is Scotland only and the territorial extent and application of sections 10(3) and 10(4) and Schedules 10 and 11 is Northern Ireland only.