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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/delayed-discharges-mental-health-care-england-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2276",
  "legislation_title": "The Delayed Discharges (Mental Health Care) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/delayed-discharges-mental-health-care-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definition of “mental health care”",
  "text": "For the purposes of the definition of “mental health care” in section 12 of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 health services relating to mental health are of a prescribed description if they are—\n(a) psychiatric services; or\n(b) other services provided to a patient for the purposes of the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness,\nwhere the person primarily responsible for arranging those services is a consultant psychiatrist.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2277",
      "affecting_title": "The Delayed Discharges (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2276/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:08.460348+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."
}