Criminal Code Warning: this is not an official translation. Under all circumstances the original text in Dutch language of the Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht) prevails

Section 37 
1.  The court may order the admission of a person, who cannot be held responsible for committing a 
criminal offence by reason of mental disease or defect, to a psychiatric hospital for a term of one 
year, but only if he poses a danger to himself, to others, or to the general safety of persons or 
property.  
2.  The court may only issue the order referred to in subsection (1) after a reasoned, dated and signed 
opinion issued by no fewer than two behavioural experts of different disciplines - one being a 
psychiatrist -who have examined the person in question, has been submitted to it. Such opinion 
shall be given jointly by the behavioural experts or by each of them separately. Where the date of 
this opinion precedes the commencement of the trial by more than one year, the court may only 
rely upon it with the consent of the Public Prosecution Service and of the defendant.  

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3.  Subsection (2) shall not apply if the person in question refuses to cooperate with the examination 
required for submission of the opinion. Where possible, the behavioural experts shall prepare, 
either jointly or each of them separately, a report on the reason for the refusal. The court shall 
make every effort to secure the submission of another opinion or report advising it on the 
desirability or necessity of a measure as referred to in subsection (1), with which the person in 
question is willing to cooperate.