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Article 507The security measures referred to in Article 505 paragraph 1 of this Code may also beimposed where the public prosecutor during the trial amends his indictment or motion toindict by submitting a motion for imposition of the measures.Article 508Where the court imposes a penalty on a person who committed a criminal offence in astate of significantly diminished mental capacity, it shall in the same judgement impose asecurity measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment and confinement to a health-careinstitution, after it establishes that all statutory conditions are fulfilled.Article 509The final decision imposing the security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatmentand confinement to a health-care institution or compulsory psychiatric treatment as anoutpatient (Articles 506 and 508) shall be submitted to a court having jurisdiction todecide on deprivation of the capacity to act. The competent welfare institution shall alsobe notified of the decision.Article 510(1) The court which imposed the security measure shall once every nine monthsexamine ex officio whether the need for treatment and confinement to a health-careinstitution still exists. The health-care institution, the welfare institution and the person onwhom the security measure was imposed may submit motions to that court fordiscontinuing the measure. After hearing the public prosecutor, the court shalldiscontinue the measure and order the release of the person from the health-careinstitution, if it establishes, based on the opinion of a physician, that the need fortreatment and confinement to the health-care institution no longer exists, or may alsoorder his compulsory treatment as an outpatient. If the motion for discontinuance of themeasure is denied, it may be submitted again after the expiry of a period of six monthsfrom the day the decision was rendered.(2) When a perpetrator with significantly diminished mental capacity is released from ahealth-care institution after spending less time in that institution than the duration of theterm of imprisonment to which he had been sentenced, the court shall decide by a rulingon the release whether the person should serve the rest of the sentence or beconditionally released. Perpetrators who are conditionally released may also be imposeda security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment as outpatients, if the statutoryrequirements for this are fulfilled.(3) The court may, ex officio or upon a motion of the administration of the health-careinstitution where the defendant is treated or should have been treated, and after hearingthe public prosecutor, impose the security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatmentand confinement to a health-care institution on a perpetrator who is subject to a securitymeasure of compulsory psychiatric treatment as an outpatient, if it establishes that suchperson did not undergo treatment or abandoned it wilfully, or that despite the treatment