{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-consequential-amendment-of-enactments-order-1991/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1881",
  "legislation_title": "The Children Act 1989 (Consequential Amendment of Enactments) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989-consequential-amendment-of-enactments-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "text": "Section 26(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (Definition of “relative” and “nearest relative”) shall be amended by the substitution, for the words “his mother”, of the following—\n“(a) his mother, and\n(b) if his father has parental responsibility for him within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989, his father.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1881/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:39:17.129978+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."
}