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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/12",
  "legislation_title": "Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the judge or the court—\n(a) is satisfied, on the written or oral evidence of a registered medical practitioner, that there is reason to suspect that the person is suffering from mental disorder, and\n(b) is of the opinion that it would be impracticable for a report on the person's mental condition to be made if he or she were remanded on bail,\nthe judge or the court may remand the person to a hospital or registered establishment specified by the judge or the court for such a report to be made.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n“hospital” has the meaning given by section 145(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“mental disorder” has the meaning given by section 1 of that Act (reading subsection (2B) of that section as if it included a reference to sub-paragraph (1) above);\n“registered establishment” has the meaning given by 34(1) of that Act.\n(3) Subsections (4) to (10) of section 35 of the Mental Health Act 1983 apply for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) with any necessary modifications (in particular, with references to the accused person being read as references to the person mentioned in that sub-paragraph, and references to the court being read as references to the judge or the court).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 23.3.2015 by S.I. 2015/373, art. 4(c)"
    }
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  "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."
}