Mental Health Act 20266

Amendment of section 8 of Act of 2006

214. Section 8 of the Act of 2006 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) that he or she did not, at the time when the act was committed, have a mental disorder of the nature referred to in section 5(1)(b);”,

(b) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “that he or she did not have a mental disorder” for “that he or she was not suffering from a mental disorder”,

(c) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “he or she had at the time that the offence alleged was committed, a mental disorder” for “he or she was at the time that the offence alleged was committed suffering from any mental disorder”,

(d) in subsection (6)(b), by the substitution of “did not, at the time when the act was committed, have a mental disorder” for “was not, at the time when the act was committed, suffering from any mental disorder”,

(e) in subsection (8), by the substitution of “he or she did not have a mental disorder” for “he or she was not suffering from any mental disorder”, and

(f) in subsection (10), by the substitution of “is satisfied that the appellant at the time that the offence alleged was committed had a mental disorder” for “is satisfied that the appellant was at the time that the offence alleged was committed suffering from a mental disorder”.