Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992

103 Co-opting suitable persons

• (1) A Review Tribunal may, for the purposes of any particular case, co-opt—

  • (a) any person whose specialised knowledge or expertise would be of assistance to the Review Tribunal in dealing with the case; or

  • (b) any person whose ethnic identity is the same as the patient's, where no member of the Review Tribunal has that ethnic identity; or

  • (c) any person of the same gender as the patient, where no member of the Review Tribunal is of that gender.

  (2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), where in any case no member of the Review Tribunal has the same ethnic identity as the patient, or is of the same gender as the patient, the Review Tribunal shall co-opt a suitable person pursuant to paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of that subsection if the patient or the applicant requests it to do so.

  (3) A person who is co-opted under this section shall be deemed for all purposes to be a member of the Tribunal in respect of the case for which he or she is co-opted.