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'''Applications to tribunals concerning restricted patients'''

70.	A patient who is a restricted patient within the meaning of section 79 below and is detained in a hospital may apply to [the appropriate tribunal]—<ref name="TTFO">[[Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008]] wef 3/11/08</ref>

:(a)	in the period between the expiration of six months and the expiration of 12 months beginning with the date of the relevant hospital order[, hospital direction]<ref>[[Crime (Sentences) Act 1997]]</ref> or transfer direction; and

:(b)	in any subsequent period of 12 months.

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