{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Transfer directions for persons detained in youth detention accommodation",
  "text": "(1) In section 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (removal to hospital of other prisoners), in subsection (2)(a), for “remand centre” substitute “remanded to youth detention accommodation under section 91 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012”.\n(2) In Schedule 8 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (repeals), in the table, omit the entry relating to section 48(2)(a) of the Mental Health Act 1983.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 18.2.2026, see s. 56(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/33/section/38",
    "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."
}