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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/schedule-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Repeals",
  "text": "Chapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 72.\nThe Mental Health Act 1959.\nSections 1 to 5.\nSection 10.\nSection 22.\nSections 25 to 35.\nSections 37 to 43.\nSections 45 to 60.\nSections 62 to 68.\nSections 70 to 76.\nSections 80 and 81.\nSection 85.\nSection 87.\nSections 89 and 90.\nSections 92 to 96.\nSections 99 to 119.\nSections 121 to 126.\nSections 129 and 130.\nSections 132 and 133.\nSection 135 to 141.\nIn section 144, in subsection (1), paragraph (b).\nSection 145(2).\nSections 147 and 148.\nSection 149(3) to (5).\nIn section 150, the words from “section ten” to “section one hundred and forty one” and from “section one hundred and forty six” to “Schedules”.\nIn section 152, the words from “sections eighty-five” to “Northern Ireland by that section”, from “section one hundred and twenty-nine” to “Schedules” and the words “Part II of the Seventh Schedule; Part II of the Eighth Schedule”.\nSection 153.\nSchedule 1.\nSchedule 3.\nSchedule 5.\nSchedule 6, except paragraph 15(4).\nIn Schedule 7, in Part I the entry relating to sections 48 and 49 of the Fines and Recoveries Act 1833 and in Part II the entries relating to the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 and the USA Veterans’ Pensions (Administration) Act 1949.\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n1960 c. 61.\nThe Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960.\nSection 74.\nIn Schedule 4, all the entries relating to the Mental Health Act 1959 except those relating to section 9 and Schedule 7.\n1961 (N.I.) c. 15.\nThe Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1961.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 1 to 4.\n1964 c. 84.\nThe Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964.\nSection 4(7).\n1965 c. 2.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1965.\nIn Schedule 1, the entry relating to the Mental Health Act 1959.\n1968 c. 20.\nThe Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968.\nIn Schedule 4, the entry relating to the Mental Health Act 1959.\n1968 c. 49.\nThe Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraphs 48 and 49.\n1969 c. 46.\nThe Family Law Reform Act 1969.\nIn Schedule 1 the entries relating to the Mental Health Act 1959.\n1969 c. 54.\nThe Children and Young Persons Act 1969.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 38 to 40.\n1969 c. 58.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1969.\nSections 17 to 19.\n1970 c. 42.\nThe Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.\nIn Schedule 1, the entry relating to the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982.\n1971 c. 23.\nThe Courts Act 1971.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraph 38.\nIn Part I of Schedule 9, the entry relating to the Mental Health Act 1959.\n1971 c. 77.\nThe Immigration Act 1971.\nIn section 30(2), the words from “and accordingly” onwards.\n1972 c. 70.\nThe Local Government Act 1972.\nIn Schedule 23, in paragraph 9, in sub-paragraph (1) the words “35, 56(2)(c) and 56(3)”, in sub-paragraph (2) the words “10(1), 22, 27(2), 33, 34, 38(3), 40 to 43, 47(2), 52, 53, 59, 60” and “132”, sub-paragraphs (4), (5) and (6).\n1973 c. 29.\nThe Guardianship Act 1973.\nIn section 1(8), the words from “and” to the end of the subsection.\n1975 c. 37.\nThe Nursing Homes Act 1975.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 to 4.\n1977 c. 45.\nThe Criminal Law Act 1977.\nIn Schedule 6, the entry relating to section 130(3) of the Mental Health Act 1959.\n1977 c. 49.\nThe National Health Service Act 1977.\nIn section 105(3), the words “or the Mental Health Act 1959”.\nIn Schedule 15, paragraphs 23, 26 to 28, 30, 31 and 33.\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n1978 c. 29.\nThe National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\nIn paragraph 10(b) of Schedule 15, the figure “102”.\n1980 c. 5.\nThe Child Care Act 1980.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 13 and 14.\n1980 c. 43.\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.\nIn Schedule 7, paragraphs 31 and 32.\n1980 c. 53.\nThe Health Services Act 1980.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 13.\n1981 c. 45.\nThe Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.\nSection 11(1).\n1981 c. 54.\nThe Senior Courts Act 1981.\nSection 144.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the entry relating to the Mental Health Act 1959.\nIn Schedule 6, paragraph 4.\n1981 c. 61.\nThe British Nationality Act 1981.\nIn section 39(7) the words “section 90 of the Mental Health Act 1959 and”.\n1982 c. 51.\nThe Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982.\nSections 1 to 33.\nSections 35 to 61.\nIn section 63, subsection (1) and in subsection (2) the words from the beginning to “Act and”.\nSection 64(1), (2), (3), (5) and (6).\nSection 66.\nSection 68(2) and (3).\nSection 69(2), (3), and (4).\nIn section 70(2), the words “sections 35(1) and (2) and 64(6) above extend to Northern Ireland”.\nSchedule 1.\nIn Schedule 3, in Part I paragraphs 1 to 26, in paragraph 35 sub-paragraph (a), paragraphs 40, 42, 45 and 46, in paragraph 50 sub-paragraph (a), in paragraph 51 sub-paragraph (a), paragraphs 52 to 55, 57 and 58 and Part II.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 2 to 15.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 4; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
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