{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-commencement-no-1england-and-wales-order-2007/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-commencement-no-1england-and-wales-order-2007/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Commencement No. 1)(England and Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-commencement-no-1england-and-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1 April 2007—\n(a) sections 42(1), (2), (3), (6) and (7) and 43 (codes of practice); and\n(b) section 44 (ill-treatment or neglect).\n(2) The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1 April 2007 for purposes relating to the independent mental capacity advocate service—\n(a) section 1 (principles);\n(b) section 2 (people who lack capacity);\n(c) section 3 (inability to make decisions);\n(d) section 4 (best interests); and\n(e) sections 42(4) and (5) (codes of practice).\n(3) The provisions of the Act listed in Article 2(2) also come into force on 1 April 2007 for the purposes of section 44 (ill-treatment or neglect).\n(4) Section 64 (interpretation) comes into force on 1 April 2007 for the purposes of —\n(a) Article 2(1);\n(b) Article 2(2); and\n(c) Article 2(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Commencement No.1) Order (2006/2814) (as amended by SI 2006/3473) brings sections 35 to 41 of the Act into force in England on 1 April 2007."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/563/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:03:30.074108+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."
}