Book II: Combating mental illness

When a psychiatrist in the institution receiving a person undergoing psychiatric care pursuant to article L. 3212-1 certifies in a medical certificate or, when it is not possible to examine the person concerned, in a medical opinion based on his or her medical file, that the mental state of this person requires care and compromises the safety of individuals or seriously affects public order, the director of the host establishment…

When the judicial authorities consider that the mental state of a person who has benefited, on the basis of the first paragraph of article 122-1 of the French Criminal Code, from a decision to discontinue proceedings, a decision that the person is not criminally irresponsible or a judgment or ruling declaring that the person is not criminally irresponsible requires care and compromises the safety of individuals or seriously undermines public…

I.- If the panel mentioned in article L. 3211-9 issues an opinion to the effect that the measure of psychiatric care in the form of full hospitalisation to which a person mentioned in II of article L. 3211-12 is subject is no longer necessary and that the measure of care without consent can be lifted, the State representative in the department shall order an expert assessment of the person’s mental…

Within twenty-four hours of any admission for psychiatric care taken in application of this chapter or chapter IV of this title or on the basis of a court order, of any decision to maintain this measure and of any lifting of this measure, the State representative in the department will notify : 1° The Public Prosecutor of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the institution receiving the patient is located…

I.-If a psychiatrist involved in the patient’s care certifies in a medical certificate that a psychiatric care measure in the form of full hospitalisation is no longer necessary and that the care measure without consent can be lifted or that the patient can be cared for in the form mentioned in 2° of I of article L. 3211-2-1, the director of the host establishment will refer the matter within twenty-four…

For the application of this chapter in Paris, the representative of the State in the department is the Prefect of Police.

The terms and conditions for the application of this chapter shall be determined as necessary by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.