Commentary Part 1 – Amendments to Mental Health Act 1983 Chapter 3 – Safeguards for Patients Section 28: Section 27: supplemental
97.Section 28 of the 2007 Act amends section 62 of the 1983 Act (urgent treatment) so that, where the treatment is ECT, urgent treatment can only be given where it is immediately necessary to save life or to prevent a serious deterioration in the patient’s condition. Where the treatment is another form of section 58A type treatment (to be determined by regulations under section 58A), the Secretary of State for England and the Welsh Ministers for Wales, may make regulations regarding which of the criteria in section 62(1) of the 1983 Act for urgent treatment are to apply to that treatment. Section 28 of the 2007 Act also makes consequential amendments to sections 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63 of the 1983 Act, and to section 28 of the MCA, to take account of the new section 58A.