Editing Outpatient commitment (section)

====Norway====
When Norway introduced outpatient commitment in the 1961 ''Mental Health Act'', it could only be mandated for individuals who had previously been admitted for inpatient treatment.<ref name=Riley2017>{{cite journal |last1=Riley |first1=Henriette |last2=Straume |first2=Bjørn |last3=Høyer |first3=Georg |date=2 May 2017 |title=Patients on outpatient commitment orders in Northern Norway |journal=BMC Psychiatry |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=157 |doi=10.1186/s12888-017-1331-1 |doi-access=free |pmid=28464805 |pmc=5414164 }}<!--Note: Although this is a primary source, only information from the "Background" section is used.--></ref> Revisions in 1999 and 2006 provided for outpatient commitment without previous inpatient treatment, but this provision is seldom used.<ref name=Riley2017/>