Article 2 The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

(1)

Section 299 (Nurse’s power to detain pending medical examination) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

in the opening words of paragraph (a), for “section 228(1)” substitute “section 227A(1)”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph, for “subsections (1) and (2)(a) of section 230” substitute “subsections (1) and (3)(a) of section 227R”; and

(c)

in sub-paragraph (ii) of that paragraph, for “subsections (1) and (2)(b)” substitute “subsections (1) and (3)(b)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2003 asp 13; section 299 is amended by the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), section 20.