{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-328",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-328.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/328",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "328",
  "heading": "Meaning of “mental disorder”",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, in this Act “mental disorder” means any—\n(a) mental illness;\n(b) personality disorder; or\n(c) learning disability,\nhowever caused or manifested; and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) A person is not mentally disordered by reason only of any of the following—\n(a) sexual orientation;\n(b) sexual deviancy;\n(c) transsexualism;\n(d) transvestism;\n(e) dependence on, or use of, alcohol or drugs;\n(f) behaviour that causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any other person;\n(g) acting as no prudent person would act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 328 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/328",
    "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."
}