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Part II Compulsory Admission to Hospital and GuardianshipC1C2

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  1. Procedure for hospital admission
  2. Guardianship
  3. General provisions as to applications and recommendations
  4. Position of patients subject to detention or guardianship
  5. Duration of authority and discharge
  6. After-care under supervision
  7. Functions of relatives of patients
  8. Supplemental

Annotations

Modifications

C1

Pt. II (ss. 2–34) modified by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36, SIF 85), ss. 17(2), 78(2)

C2

Part II (ss. 2-34) modified (E.W.) (1.1.1992) by Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c. 25, SIF 39:1), s. 5(1), Sch. 1 para.3 (with saving in s. 8); S.I. 1991/2488, art. 2

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

For the words "Supreme Court Act 1981" there is substituted (1.10.2009) the words "Senior Courts Act 1981" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)