{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-273",
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  "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/273",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "273",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“relevant Health Board” means, in relation to a patient of such description as may be specified in regulations, the Health Board, or Special Health Board—\n(a)of such description as may be so specified; or\n(b)determined under such regulations; and\n“relevant patient” means a patient whose detention in hospital is authorised by—\n(a)if the patient is also subject to a restriction order, a compulsion order,\n(b)a hospital direction, or\n(c)a transfer for treatment direction.\n(2) In this Chapter, a reference to a hospital may be read as a reference to a hospital unit.\n(3) For the purposes of this Chapter, “hospital unit” means any part of a hospital which is treated as a separate unit.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 273 renumbered as s. 273(1) (16.11.2015) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 18(2)(a), 61(2); S.S.I. 2015/361, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 273 substituted (16.11.2015) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 16(6), 61(2); S.S.I. 2015/361, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 273(2)(3) inserted (16.11.2015) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 18(2)(b), 61(2); S.S.I. 2015/361, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Part 17 Chapter 3 (ss. 264 - 273) in force 1.5.2006 or such earlier day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint, see s. 333(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 273 in force at 6.1.2006 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 273 in force at 1.5.2006 or such earlier day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint, see s. 333(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/13/section/273",
    "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."
}