{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-care-and-treatment-scotland-act-2003/section-46.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/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Hospital managers' duties: notification",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a patient is subject to a short-term detention certificate.\n(2) The managers of the hospital shall as soon as practicable after the production to them of the short-term detention certificate, give notice of its granting to—\n(a) the patient;\n(b) the patient’s named person;\n(c) any guardian of the patient; and\n(d) any welfare attorney of the patient.\n(3) The managers of the hospital shall, before the expiry of the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which the certificate is granted, give notice of its granting ... to—\n(a) the Tribunal; and\n(b) the Commission.\n(4) When giving notice under subsection (2) or (3) above, the managers of the hospital are to send a copy of the certificate to each recipient of the notice.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(1) substituted (27.9.2005) by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 32(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(3) repealed (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 5(3)(a), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 46(4) inserted (30.6.2017) by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 9), ss. 5(3)(b), 61(2); S.S.I. 2017/197, art. 2, sch. (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 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/46",
    "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."
}