Paragraph 7

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

Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 5(ba) inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 s. 29(6)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 5(d) and word inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(c)(ii)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 7(b)(i) words substituted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(d)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 7A inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(e)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 9 inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(f)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 1 word inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(a)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 2 word inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(b)(i)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 2 words inserted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(b)(ii)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 2 word substituted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(b)(iii)
Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 5(b) word omitted by Mental Health Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 30(c)(i)

In section 23—

(a)

in subsection (1) references to guardianship shall be omitted and after the word “made” there shall be inserted the words “with the consent of the Secretary of State and” and

(b)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

in paragraph (a) the words “for assessment or” and “or by the nearest relative of the patient” shall be omitted; and

(ii)

paragraph (b) shall be omitted.

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)