{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-A1/paragraph-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-A1/paragraph-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/9",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/131",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An assessor may, at all reasonable times, examine and take copies of—\n(a) any health record,\n(b) any record of, or held by, a local authority and compiled in accordance with a social services function, and\n(c) any record held by a person registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 , Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 or Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016,\nwhich the assessor considers may be relevant to the assessment which is being carried out.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 para. 131(c) substituted (2.4.2018) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/195), regs. 2(1), 33(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2019/18",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/schedule/A1/paragraph/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:24.228713+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."
}