{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Principles to inform decisions",
  "text": "In section 118 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (duty to prepare code of practice, including principles which the person making it thinks should inform decisions under the Act) for subsection (2B) substitute—\n“(2B) The statement of principles must, in particular, include the principles, and address the matters, specified in the table.\nPrinciple\nMatters to be addressed\nChoice and autonomy\ninvolvement of patients in decision-making, and consideration of the views of carers and other interested parties\nLeast restriction\nminimising restrictions on liberty so far as consistent with patient wellbeing and safety and public safety\nTherapeutic benefit\neffectiveness and appropriateness of treatment\nThe person as an individual\ntreating patients with dignity and respect and considering their attributes and past experiences\n”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 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/section/1",
    "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."
}