{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007-commencement-no10-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No.10 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007-commencement-no10-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2009 and shall come into force on the 1st April 2009.\n(2) In this Order,\n“the 2005 Act” means the Mental Capacity Act 2005; and\n“the Act” means the Mental Health Act 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/139/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:18:47.606641+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."
}