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the perpetrator to a health-care institution, or a motion for compulsory psychiatrictreatment as an outpatient, if the requirements determined by the Criminal Code forpronouncing such a measure exist.(2) In such case an accused person who is in detention shall not be released but shalluntil the completion of the proceedings for the implementation of a security measure betemporarily confined in an appropriate health-care institution or other suitable premises.(3) Besides the grounds referred to in Article 142 of this Code, accused persons who areat large may be ordered placed in detention if there is a justifiable danger of thecommission of a criminal offence owing to mental incapacity. Before ordering detention,the court shall obtain the opinion of an expert witness. After the decision on detention isissued, the accused shall until the completion of the proceedings for implementation of asecurity measure be placed in an appropriate health-care institution or premises whichare suitable for the state of his health.(4) Following the motion referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the accused is requiredto have a defence counsel.Article 506(1) The court which has jurisdiction to try the case in the first instance shall rule afterholding a trial on the implementation of the security measure of compulsory psychiatrictreatment and confinement in a health-care institution or compulsory psychiatrictreatment as an outpatient.(2) Besides the persons who are required to be summoned to the trial, psychiatrists fromthe health-care institution where the accused was examined shall be summoned toprovide testimony as expert witnesses. The accused shall be summoned if his healthpermits him to attend the trial. The spouse of the accused and his parents, or guardian,and according to the circumstances also other close relatives, shall also be summonedto the trial.(3) If the court, based on evidence presented, determines that the defendant hascommitted a criminal offence and that at the time of the commission he was mentallyincapable, it shall decide, based on testimonies of summoned persons and findings andopinions of expert witnesses, whether to impose on the defendant a security measure ofcompulsory psychiatric treatment and confinement to a health-care institution orcompulsory psychiatric treatment as an outpatient. When deciding which of whichsecurity measure to impose, the court shall not be bound by the motion of the PublicProsecutor.(4) If the court finds that the accused was not mentally incapable, it shall discontinue theproceedings for implementation of a security measure.(5) All persons entitled to file appeals against a court judgement (Article 364) mayappeal against the ruling within eight days of the date of receiving the ruling, except theaggrieved.