{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-AA1/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-AA1/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/9",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/AA1/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Each local authority must make arrangements—\n(a) for persons to be approved as Approved Mental Capacity Professionals, and\n(b) to ensure that enough Approved Mental Capacity Professionals are available for its area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. AA1 inserted (16.5.2019 but only for the purpose of enabling the exercise of any power to make regulations and otherwise prosp.) by Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (c. 18), s. 6(3), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/schedule/AA1/paragraph/39",
    "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."
}