{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Transitory modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983",
  "text": "(1) Pending the coming into force of section 7(2) of this Act, section 72(1)(b) and (c) and (1A) of the Mental Health Act 1983 are to be read—\n(a) in relation to a patient admitted to hospital in pursuance of a hospital order (read in accordance with section 55(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983) or a Part 3 community patient, as if, for “mental”, in each place it occurs, there were substituted “relevant”;\n(b) in relation to any other patient as if for “mental”, in each place it occurs, there were substituted “psychiatric”.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a) “Part 3 community patient” means a person who is a community patient by virtue of a community treatment order under section 17A as applied by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Mental Health Act 1983.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 21 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/33/schedule/1/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:45:37.913870+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."
}