Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

146: Consent to treatment, etc, not affected

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"Getting a sentence doesn't change your right to agree to or refuse medical treatment."

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If you get a sentence or condition under the Sentencing Act 2002, it does not change the rules about agreeing to medical or psychiatric treatment. The rules about agreeing to treatment are still the same as they were before. This is true unless another law says something different, like the law mentioned in the 1985 Act.

You still have the same rights to agree to or refuse medical treatment as you did before the sentence or condition. These rights are protected by other laws and rules. The sentence or condition under the Sentencing Act 2002 does not override these laws and rules, except if another law says it does.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions: Miscellaneous provisions

146Consent to treatment, etc, not affected

  1. No sentence or condition imposed or order made under this Act limits or affects in any way any enactment or rule of law relating to consent to any medical or psychiatric treatment.

  2. Subsection (1) applies except as expressly provided by any other enactment.

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