Paragraph 3 Amendments of Part 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983I1

In section 7 (application for guardianship), in subsection (2), for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

the patient is suffering from—

(i)

psychiatric disorder,

(ii)

autism, or

(iii)

learning disability which has serious behavioural consequences,

of a nature or degree which warrants the patient’s reception into guardianship under this section, and”.