{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-mental-health-rules-1996/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2149",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Mental Health Rules) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-mental-health-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Variation of conditions of a community care order",
  "text": "—Where, after consulting the persons referred to in subsections (1) and (2) of section 35D(variation of conditions in community care order) of the Act of 1984, an application is made by the special medical officer for the variation of a community care order under that section, the special medical officer shall—\n(a) complete Form 22 in Schedule 2 to the Mental Health (Prescribed Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1996; and\n(b) lodge that form with the sheriff clerk, together with the community care order to which that application for variation relates or a certified copy of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 35D of the Act of 1984 was inserted by the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995, section 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/743."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2149/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:42.784057+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}