There is provision for a material breach of a conditional discharge order.\u00a0 The person in breach is unlawfully at large. \u00a0Where the Clinical Director of the designated centre on reasonable grounds believes that the person is in breach of one or more conditions of his discharge and there is a serious likelihood of the person causing serious harm to himself or others, he may take certain steps.<\/p>\n
The Clinical Director must inform a person believed to be in a material breach of a conditional discharge order of the facts and the reasons for the belief.\u00a0 This does not apply where the Clinical Director on reasonable grounds believes that the material breach is such as to give reasonable grounds to believe there is a serious likelihood of the person committing immediate and serious harm to himself or others.<\/p>\n
The Clinical Director may make arrangements to effect the person\u2019s return to the designated centre including requesting Garda assistance.\u00a0 The returned person must be given reasons in writing for his return.<\/p>\n
The provisions of the original order apply once again to the person as it did when he was originally committed to the designated centre. \u00a0The Clinical Director must inform the Review Board of the return and the Board must review the detention as soon as maybe.<\/p>\n
The registered proprietor of the designated centre may make arrangements for the externally provided assisted return of the person.<\/p>\n\n
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Mental Health Criminal Law Review Board The legislation establishes the Mental Health Criminal Law Review Board. It is independent in the exercise of its functions and shall have regard to the welfare and safety of persons whose detention or conditions of discharge it reviews and for the public interest. The Review Board holds sittings for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}