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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Treatment not requiring consent.",
  "text": "The consent of a patient shall not be required for any medical treatment given to him for the mental disorder from which he is suffering , not being a form of treatment to which section 57, 58 or 58A above applies, if the treatment is given by or under the direction of the approved clinician in charge of the treatment .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 63 substituted (3.11.2008) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 28(8), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(g) (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63 substituted (3.11.2008) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 12(6), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(b) (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    }
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/33",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2025"
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      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words in s. 63 renumbered as s. 63(1)",
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      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2025"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/20/section/63",
    "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."
}