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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/12",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 41 (power of higher courts to restrict discharge from hospital), in subsection (3)(aa) for “after-care under supervision” substitute “ community treatment orders and community patients ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 17 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 56(1); Sch. 3 para. 17 in force at 3.11.2008 by S.I. 2008/1210, arts. 1(1)(b), 2(b) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:49.197749+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."
}