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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to any rules made by the Lord Chancellor under section 78(4)(a) above, where the President of the tribunal is included among the persons appointed under paragraph 4 above, he shall be chairman of the tribunal; and in any other case the chairman of the tribunal shall be such one of the members so appointed (being one of the legal members) as the President may nominate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 6 substituted (1.12.2017) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 38(9)(a), 56(1); S.I. 2017/1038, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 6 substituted (1.12.2017) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 38(9)(b), 56(1); S.I. 2017/1038, art. 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:09:24.002453+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."
}