{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-22.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/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Approved medical practitioners",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, the persons mentioned in subsection (2) below shall each compile and maintain a list of medical practitioners who—\n(a) have such qualifications and experience, and have undertaken such training, as may be specified in directions given by the Scottish Ministers; and\n(b) are approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Board concerned as having special experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder.\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) a Health Board; and\n(b) the State Hospitals Board for Scotland.\n(3) A list compiled by a Health Board under subsection (1) above shall be compiled for its area.\n(4) A medical practitioner included for the time being in any list maintained under subsection (1) above is referred to in this Act as an “approved medical practitioner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 in force at 21.3.2005 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 22 in force at 5.10.2005 in so far as not already in force 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/22",
    "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."
}