When is the deadline for responsible authority's statement and reports - three weeks?

The selected ordinary outer limit for responsible authority is 21 days from actual making of a reference, or receipt of the application or reference copy. Send or deliver the practice-direction documents so the tribunal receives them.

Responsible actor. Responsible authority.

Actual making of a reference, or receipt of the application or reference copy

Send or deliver the practice-direction documents so the tribunal receives them

Establish this exact ordinary England tribunal branch and every actual source condition. A statutory window boundary does not prove actual application receipt or a listed hearing.

1. Exclude the actual rule trigger day. Apply the stated calendar period and rule12 completion treatment separately.
2. The ordinary rule period ends by 5 PM under HESC rule 12, with next-working-day carry only where that rule lawfully applies. As-soon-as-practicable duties remain additional.

Exclude the actual rule trigger day. Apply the stated calendar period and rule12 completion treatment separately.

The ordinary rule period ends by 5 PM under HESC rule 12, with next-working-day carry only where that rule lawfully applies. As-soon-as-practicable duties remain additional.

Fictitious example

Fictional actual making of a reference, or receipt of the application or reference copy on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every listed branch condition is explicitly assumed. The retained operative regime remains unchanged for this fictional event.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Source branch condition1

The actual event and statutory patient or procedural status are established.

Source branch condition2

The operative current provision has not been displaced by a later commencement, applicable order or direction.

Source branch condition3

This is an England First-tier Tribunal mental-health case or its ordinary Upper Tribunal appeal, not a Wales tribunal procedure.

Source branch condition4

No extension, shortening, urgent exception or varied timetable displaces this ordinary rule.

Source branch condition5

Neither the conditional-discharge paragraph (4) nor assessment-admission paragraph (5) applies.

Source branch condition6

The correct made-reference or received-copy event is established.

Source branch condition7

For a restricted patient, the copy must also reach the Secretary of State.

• Establish this exact ordinary England tribunal branch and every actual source condition. A statutory window boundary does not prove actual application receipt or a listed hearing.
• Secretary of State's statement in other restricted patient cases - three weeks concerns secretary of state, actual receipt of documents provided under rule 32(7) and send the prescribed information and any observations to the tribunal. Notice of the time and place of the hearing concerns first-tier tribunal, actual hearing date and give parties and relevant notified persons the ordinary minimum hearing notice. Application to set aside a decision disposing of proceedings concerns party seeking procedural set-aside, actual date the tribunal sent notice of the decision to that party and make a written set-aside application received by the tribunal.

• Send or deliver the practice-direction documents so the tribunal receives them
• Confirm the applicable tribunal and actual receipt, dispatch or hearing event required by the selected source.
• Check any relevant order, direction, extension and later statutory commencement.
• The ordinary rule period ends by 5 PM under HESC rule 12, with next-working-day carry only where that rule lawfully applies. As-soon-as-practicable duties remain additional.