Section 40 Independent mental health advocatesI1

United Kingdom Not yet in force

Schedule 3 contains amendments relating to independent mental health advocates, including amendments which—

(a)

provide for informal patients to qualify for help from independent mental health advocates;

(b)

impose duties on hospital managers and others to notify providers of advocacy services about qualifying patients;

(c)

impose duties on providers of advocacy services to arrange for certain patients to be interviewed to find out whether they want to use those services.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 40 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(3)