{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959/schedule-SIXTH/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959/schedule-SIXTH/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/72",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959",
  "path": "schedule/SIXTH/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1)—(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Section eighty-four of this Act shall apply to a transferred patient who having been a state mental patient in Scotland was immediately before the commencement of this Act liable to be detained in a hospital in England and Wales by virtue of subsection (3) of section sixty-three of the Criminal Justice Act 1948, or subsection (2) of section sixty-four of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949, as if he had been removed to such a hospital from Scotland in pursuance of an order under the said subsection (2); and where he is treated by virtue of the said section eighty-four as if he had been removed to a hospital in pursuance of a transfer direction, he shall also be treated as if a direction restricting his discharge had been given as aforesaid.\n5),(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 (except paragraph 15(4)) repealed by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 58."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1949 c. 94."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/72/schedule/SIXTH/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:36.620169+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."
}