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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-confidential-forum-prescribed-care-and-health-services-scotland-order-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2014/9780111023495",
  "legislation_title": "The National Confidential Forum (Prescribed Care and Health Services) (Scotland) Order 2014",
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  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision under paragraph 7 of schedule 1A (National Confidential Forum) to the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the schedule”).\nThe National Confidential Forum (NCF) is a committee of the Mental Welfare Commission with functions relating to persons who were placed in institutional care as children. The NCF may hear testimony from eligible persons. It is a condition of eligibility that a person has been placed in institutional care.\nArticles 2 and 3 prescribe care and health services for the purposes of the definition of “institutional care” in paragraph 7(3) of the schedule. Those services also require to meet the conditions in paragraph 7(4) of the schedule.\nThe services prescribed in the Order do not include services provided in private dwellings (article 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2014/9780111023495/note",
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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."
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