{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-157",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-157.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": "section/157",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Application for extension and variation of compulsion order: notification",
  "text": "Where, by virtue of section 156(1) of this Act, an application is to be made under section 158 of this Act, the patient’s responsible medical officer shall, as soon as practicable after the duty to make the application arises (and, in any event, before making the application), give notice that the application is to be made to—\n(a) the patient;\n(b) the patient’s named person;\n(c) any guardian of the patient;\n(d) any welfare attorney of the patient;\n(e) the mental health officer; ...\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 157(f) and word repealed (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 51(2), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 157 in force at 5.10.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (as substituted (1.7.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/375, art. 2 and as amended (22.9.2005) by S.S.I. 2005/459, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/section/157",
    "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."
}