{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-245",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-245.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/245",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "245",
  "heading": "Certificates under sections 235, 236, 239 and 241",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to certificates under sections 235, 236, 239 and 241 of this Act.\n(2) A certificate shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed by regulations.\n(3) Before giving a certificate, the person giving it shall consult—\n(a) subject to subsection (4) below—\n(i) the patient; ...\n(ii) the patient’s named person; and\n(iii) any guardian of the patient; and\n(iv) any welfare attorney of the patient;\n(b) such person or persons as appear to the person giving the certificate to be principally concerned with the patient’s medical treatment.\n(4) The person giving a certificate need not consult any person such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) above in any case where it is impracticable to do so.\n(5) A person who gives a certificate shall, before the expiry of the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which the certificate is given, send a copy of it to the Commission.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 245(3)(a) repealed (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 30(2)(a), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 245(3)(a)(iii)(iv) inserted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 30(2)(b), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 245 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. 245 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/245",
    "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."
}