NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 89 person is heard, employees of the penal institution and other persons are questioned, as well as other data on the behaviour of the convicted person after the imposition of the sentence are checked. The court must resolve the following questions when issuing a ruling: 1) whether the convicted person has a mental health condition after the imposition of the sentence and, as a result, cannot understand the essence of their actions or control them; 2) whether and what compulsory medical measures are applicable to the convicted person. Pursuant to the order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania ‘Description of the procedure for checking the health status of convicts with serious incurable or mental illness’, a convict serving a sentence of arrest or deprivation of liberty, for whom the doctor of the place of deprivation of liberty suspects a serious incurable physical illness or mental health condition, due to which they are unable to understand the essence of their actions and control them, is brought to the Central Prison Hospital for a medical check-up.111 The doctor, who has checked the state of health of the convicted person and found that they have a mental health condition, due to which they cannot understand the essence of their actions and control them, notes this in the medical record of the convicted person's medical history and submits its extract to the head of the Central Prison Hospital. After receiving the specified documents, the head of the Order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania and the Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania “On the Approval of the Procedures for the Examination of the Health Condition of Convicted Prisoners with Serious Incurable or Mental Illnesses, No 1R-308/V-1247, 27 December 2013. Available in Lithuanian at: https://bit.ly/3tm3Mel. 111

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