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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982/section-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982/section-68.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/51",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982",
  "path": "section/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Interpretation and supplementary provisions.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “the principal Act” means the Mental Health Act 1959.\n2)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 68(2)(3), 69(2)–(4) repealed by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1959 c. 72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/51/section/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:46.167406+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."
}