{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983/section-70.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/20",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-1983",
  "path": "section/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Applications to tribunals concerning restricted patients.",
  "text": "A patient who is a restricted patient within the meaning of section 79 below and is detained in a hospital may apply to the appropriate tribunal—\n(a) in the period between the expiration of six months and the expiration of 12 months beginning with the date of the relevant hospital order , hospital direction or transfer direction; and\n(b) in any subsequent period of 12 months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 70 substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 51"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(a) inserted (1.10.1997) by 1997 c. 43, s. 55, Sch. 4 para. 12(9); S.I 1997/2200, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/20/section/70",
    "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."
}