{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/12",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 120 (general protection of detained patients) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after “liable to be detained under this Act” insert “ or to community patients ”,\n(b) in paragraph (a) after “registered establishments” insert “ and community patients in hospitals and establishments of any description and (if access is granted) other places ”, and\n(c) in paragraph (b)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (i), after “this Act in” insert “ , or recalled under section 17E above to, ”, and\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (ii), after “detained” insert “ or is or has been a community patient ”.\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “registered establishment” substitute “ hospital or establishment of any description ”, and\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “in a registered establishment” substitute “ under this Act or who is or has been a community patient ”.\n(4) After subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) In this section, “establishment of any description” has the same meaning as in section 119 above.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/12/schedule/3/paragraph/26",
    "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."
}