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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers shall appoint as members of the Tribunal—\n(a) a panel of persons who have such legal—\n(i) qualifications;\n(ii) training; and\n(iii) experience,\nas may be prescribed in regulations for the purposes of serving as legal members of the Tribunal;\n(b) a panel of persons who have such qualifications, training and experience—\n(i) in medicine; and\n(ii) in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder,\nas may be prescribed in regulations for the purposes of serving as medical members of the Tribunal; and\n(c) a panel of persons who have—\n(i) such qualifications, training, skills and experience in caring for, or providing services to, persons having a mental disorder; or\n(ii) experience of such description,\nas may be prescribed in regulations for the purposes of serving as general members of the Tribunal.\n(2) A person is disqualified from appointment as, and being, a member of the Tribunal if the person—\n(a) is a member of the Scottish Parliament;\n(b) is a member of the Scottish Executive or a junior Scottish Minister; or\n(c) is of such other description as may be prescribed in regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(1)(2)(c) in force at 26.3.2004 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2004/153, art. 2, Sch. 1"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(1) in force at 1.9.2004 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2004/367, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(a)(b) in force at 3.5.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(c) in force at 3.5.2004 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2004/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified (temp.)",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:46.625109+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."
}