{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales.\n(1A) The purpose of that tribunal is to deal with applications and references by and in respect of patients under the provisions of this Act.\n(2) The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the constitution of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales.\n(3) Subject to the provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act, and to rules made by the Lord Chancellor under this Act, the jurisdiction of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales may be exercised by any three or more of its members, and references in this Act to the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales shall be construed accordingly.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may pay to the members of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales such remuneration and allowances as they may determine, and defray the expenses of that tribunal to such amount as they may determine, and may provide for that tribunal such officers and servants, and such accommodation, as that tribunal may require.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 65(1)(1A) substituted (3.11.2008) for s. 65(1)-(1C) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12), ss. 38(2), 56 (with Sch. 10); S.I. 2008/1900, art. 2(m) (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(1A) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(2) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 65(3) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 65(4) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 65: word in title substituted (3.11.2008) for words by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 45(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 65(1): functions transferred (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), arts. 3(1), 4, 5, Sch. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/20/section/65",
    "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."
}