{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003-consequential-provisions-order-2005/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2078",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003-consequential-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Protection for acts done under this Order",
  "text": "(1) No person shall be liable, whether on ground of want of jurisdiction or on any other ground, to any civil or criminal proceedings to which he would have been liable apart from this paragraph in respect of any act purporting to be done in pursuance of this Order, unless the act was done in bad faith or without reasonable care.\n(2) Section 139 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (which relates to protection for acts done in pursuance of that Act) shall apply in respect of any act purporting to be done in pursuance of articles 2 to 11 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/12",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2078/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:48.951572+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."
}