{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-142A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-142A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "section/142A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "142A",
  "heading": "Regulations as to approvals in relation to England and Wales",
  "text": "The Secretary of State jointly with the Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision as to the circumstances in which—\n(a) a practitioner approved for the purposes of section 12 above, or\n(b) a person approved to act as an approved clinician for the purposes of this Act,\napproved in relation to England is to be treated, by virtue of his approval, as approved in relation to Wales too, and vice versa.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 142A inserted (1.4.2008 for E.W.) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 17, 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/745, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/20/section/142A",
    "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."
}