{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/12",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 91 (general provisions as to patients removed from England and Wales), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Where responsibility for a community patient is transferred to a jurisdiction outside England and Wales (or such a patient is removed outside England and Wales) in pursuance of arrangements under this Part of this Act, the application, order or direction mentioned in subsection (1) above in force in respect of him shall cease to have effect on the date on which responsibility is so transferred (or he is so removed) in pursuance of those arrangements.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 16 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 56(1); Sch. 5 para. 16 in force at 3.11.2008 by S.I. 2008/1900, arts. 1(1), 2(n) (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/12/schedule/5/paragraph/16",
    "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."
}