{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-321",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-321.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/321",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "321",
  "heading": "Appeal to Court of Session against decisions of sheriff principal",
  "text": "(1) A relevant party to an appeal to the sheriff principal under section 320(2) of this Act may appeal to the Court of Session against the decision of the sheriff principal allowing or refusing the appeal.\n(2) In subsection (1) above, “relevant party” has the same meaning as in section 320 of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 321 applied (with modifications) (5.10.2005) by Mental Health (Cross-border transfer; patients subject to detention requirement or otherwise in hospital) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/467), regs. 1(1), 14 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 321 applied (with modifications) (3.11.2008) by Mental Health (England and Wales Cross-border transfer: patients subject to requirements other than detention) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/356), regs. 1(1), 9 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 321 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/321",
    "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."
}