Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 4, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act

4. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):“(3) The period referred to in subsection (1) may be further extended by order made by the consultant psychiatrist concerned for a period not exceeding 6 months beginning on the expiration of the renewal order made by the psychiatrist under subsection (2) and thereafter may be further extended by order made by the psychiatrist for periods each of which does not exceed 6 months (each of which orders is also referred to in this Act as ‘a renewal order’).”.”.