{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/12",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2007",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Cross-border arrangements",
  "text": "(1) At the end of section 17 of the 1983 Act (leave of absence) insert—\n“(6) Subsection (7) below applies to a person who is granted leave by or by virtue of a provision—\n(a) in force in Scotland, Northern Ireland, any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man; and\n(b) corresponding to subsection (1) above.\n(7) For the purpose of giving effect to a direction or condition imposed by virtue of a provision corresponding to subsection (3) above, the person may be conveyed to a place in, or kept in custody or detained at a place of safety in, England and Wales by a person authorised in that behalf by the direction or condition.”\n(2) Schedule 5 (which contains amendments to Part 6 of the 1983 Act and related amendments) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 56(1); s. 39(1)(2) in force for specified purposes for E.W. at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2798, art. 2(c); s. 39(2) in force for specified purposes at 1.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/745, art. 3(f); s. 39 in force for specified purposes insofar as not already in force for E.W. at 28.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2788, art. 2(a); s. 39(1)(2) in force for specified purposes insofar as not already 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/section/39",
    "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."
}