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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025/section-55",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/33",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-act-2025",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Extent",
  "text": "(1) An amendment or repeal made by this Act has the same extent as the provision amended or repealed subject to subsection (2).\n(2) Section 51, section 53, this section and sections 56 and 57 extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/33/section/55",
    "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."
}