{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-130J",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-130J.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "section/130J",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "130J",
  "heading": "Welsh qualifying informal patients",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 130E above.\n(2) A patient is a Welsh qualifying informal patient if–\n(a) the patient is an in-patient at a hospital or registered establishment situated in Wales;\n(b) the patient is receiving treatment for, or assessment in relation to, mental disorder at the hospital or registered establishment; and\n(c) no application, order, direction or report renders the patient liable to be detained under this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 130J inserted (2.4.2012) by Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 7), ss. 36, 55(3); S.I. 2011/3046, art. 3(d) (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/33",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/20/section/130J",
    "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."
}