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Paragraph 2 Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983I1

United Kingdom Not yet in force

In section 3 (admission for treatment), in subsection (2), for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

the patient is suffering from psychiatric disorder of a nature or degree which makes it appropriate for the patient to receive medical treatment in a hospital,”.

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I1

Sch. 1 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(3)