Part Three: Combating disease and addiction

The psychiatrist involved in the patient’s care may propose at any time to modify the form of care referred to in article L. 3211-2-1 to take account of changes in the patient’s condition. He will draw up a detailed medical certificate to this effect. The psychiatrist involved in the patient’s care immediately sends the director of the host establishment a detailed medical certificate proposing full hospitalisation when he/she finds that…

In order to promote their recovery, rehabilitation or social reintegration or if external measures are necessary, persons undergoing psychiatric care in application of Chapters II and III of this Title or of Article 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the form of full hospitalisation may benefit from short-term discharge authorisations: 1° In the form of accompanied outings not exceeding twelve hours. Patients are accompanied by one or more…

I.-A case may be referred to the liberty and custody judge within whose jurisdiction the reception facility is located, at any time, with a view to ordering the immediate release of a psychiatric care measure ordered pursuant to Chapters II to IV of this Title or Article 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, regardless of the form of the measure. The matter may also be referred to it with…

I.-A patient’s full hospitalisation may not continue without a decision on this measure having been taken by the liberty and custody judge, to whom the matter has first been referred by the director of the establishment when hospitalisation has been ordered in application of chapter II of the present title or by the State representative in the department when hospitalisation has been ordered in application of chapter III of the…

I.-When a case is referred to the court in application of articles L. 3211-12 or L. 3211-12-1, the court, after hearing both parties, shall rule in public. He may decide that the hearings shall take place or shall continue in chambers if their public nature would infringe the privacy of the parties, if there are disturbances likely to disturb the peace and quiet of the court or if one of…

If an appeal has been lodged on the basis of article L. 3211-12-1, the liberty and custody judge hearing the case may make the same decision in accordance with the procedure laid down in the same article L. 3211-12-1.

The order of the liberty and custody judge made pursuant to articles L. 3211-12 , L. 3211-12-1 or L. 3222-5-1 may be appealed before the first president of the court of appeal or his delegate. The debate shall be held in accordance with the procedures set out in article L. 3211-12-2, with the exception of the last paragraph of I. When an appeal is lodged with the first president or…

When a full hospitalisation measure is released in application of V of article L. 3211-12-1, the patient may, as soon as the measure is released, be subject to psychiatric care in the form mentioned in 2° of I of article L. 3211-2-1 if the conditions provided for in I of articles L. 3212-1 or L. 3213-1 are still met and in accordance with the procedures provided for, respectively, in chapters…

When the psychiatric care measure taken against a person is lifted in application of this chapter or chapters II or III of this title, a psychiatrist from the host establishment will inform the person, as far as is necessary, of the need to continue his treatment in open care and will indicate the care arrangements that he considers most appropriate for his condition.

For the sole purpose of monitoring a person who represents a serious threat to public security and order due to his or her radicalisation as a terrorist, the State representative in the department and, in Paris, the police prefect, as well as the representatives of the intelligence services mentioned in articles L. 811-2 and L. 811-4 of the Internal Security Code designated for this purpose by a decree of the…