{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/51",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-amendment-act-1982",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Commencement and transitional provisions.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, this Act shall come into force on 30th September 1983.\n2)—(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Schedule 5 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions and savings, shall have effect with respect to the matters there mentioned.",
  "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      "text": "Ss. 68(2)(3), 69(2)–(4) repealed by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), Sch. 6"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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 62, 69(5) repealed by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), Sch. 9 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/51/section/69",
    "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."
}