Mental Health Act Article 63
The court shall not impose a mandatory hospitalization period exceeding sixty days for each ruling.If two or more specialist physicians designated by the local competent authority examine the severe patients and confirm that it is necessary to extend the period of mandatory hospitalization for them, the designated psychiatric institutions shall petition the court for a ruling on the extension of the mandatory hospitalization period no later than fourteen days before the expiration of mandatory hospitalization.The number of court ruling petition referred to in the preceding Paragraph shall be limited to one time, and the extended period of mandatory hospitalization shall not exceed sixty days.
中文原文 精神衛生法第63條
法院每次裁定強制住院期間,不得逾六十日。
經二位以上地方主管機關指定之專科醫師鑑定嚴重病人有延長強制住院期間之必要者,指定精神醫療機構應於強制住院期間屆滿十四日前,向法院聲請裁定延長強制住院。
前項聲請裁定次數,以一次為限,其延長強制住院期間,不得逾六十日。
經二位以上地方主管機關指定之專科醫師鑑定嚴重病人有延長強制住院期間之必要者,指定精神醫療機構應於強制住院期間屆滿十四日前,向法院聲請裁定延長強制住院。
前項聲請裁定次數,以一次為限,其延長強制住院期間,不得逾六十日。