{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959/section-154",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959/section-154.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/72",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1959",
  "path": "section/154",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "154",
  "heading": "Short title and application to Scilly Isles.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Mental Health Act 1959.\n(2) Section 278(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (which provides for the application of that Act to the Isles of Scilly) shall have effect as if the references to that Act included references to this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 154(2) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 25 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 154(2) extended by Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1975 (c. 29), s. 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/72/section/154",
    "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."
}