{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-8/paragraph-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-8/paragraph-44.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/18",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/44",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 77 (power to discharge patients other than restricted patients) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading omit “other than restricted patients”.\n(3) Omit paragraph (3).\n(4) In paragraph (4) for “to (3)” substitute “ and (2) ”.\n(5) Omit paragraph (5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/8/paragraph/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:54.781348+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."
}