{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-232",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-232.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/232",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "232",
  "heading": "Meaning of “relevant event”",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act, “relevant event” means—\n(a) the granting of a short-term detention certificate;\n(b) the making of—\n(i) an interim compulsory treatment order;\n(ii) a compulsory treatment order;\n(iii) an assessment order;\n(iv) a treatment order;\n(v) an interim compulsion order;\n(vi) a compulsion order;\n(vii) a hospital direction; or\n(viii) a transfer for treatment direction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 232 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/232",
    "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."
}