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Administration of medicine.
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60.—Where medicine has been administered to a patient for the purposes of ameliorating his or her mental disorder for a continuous period of 3 months, the administration of that medicine shall not be continued unless either—
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(a) the patient gives his or her consent in writing to the continued administration of that medicine, or
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(b) where the patient is unable or unwilling to give such consent—
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(i) the continued administration of that medicine is approved by the consultant psychiatrist responsible for the care and treatment of the patient, and
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(ii) the continued administration of that medicine is authorised (in a form specified by the Commission) by another consultant psychiatrist following referral of the matter to him or her by the first-mentioned psychiatrist,
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and the consent, or as the case may be, approval and authorisation shall be valid for a period of 3 months and thereafter for periods of 3 months, if, in respect of each period, the like consent or, as the case may be, approval and authorisation is obtained.
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