{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Transfer of patients: role of nominated person",
  "text": "In section 19 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (transfer of patients), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Before deciding to transfer a patient between hospitals in pursuance of regulations under subsection (1), or in pursuance of subsection (3), the person responsible for taking that decision must consult the patient’s nominated person (if any), unless consultation—\n(a) is not reasonably practicable, or\n(b) would involve unreasonable delay.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 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/28",
    "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."
}