{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) below shall, in so far as it is reasonably practicable to do so, provide, in response to a request by the President, accommodation for the holding of hearings by the Tribunal.\n(4) The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (3) above are—\n(a) a Health Board;\n(b) the State Hospitals Board for Scotland;\n(c) a local authority.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(2) repealed (1.4.2015) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 4 para. 5; S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(3) power to delegate functions conferred (28.9.2004) by Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Delegation of the President’s Functions) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/373), regs. 1(1), 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 3.5.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/153, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified (temp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/7",
      "affecting_title": "Coronavirus Act 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}